Helotiella 289 



Apothecia gregarious, sessile, flat-hemispheric, .5-1.5 mm. in 

 diameter, cup-shaped when fresh, contracted and subspherical 

 when dry, with only a small, round apical opening, orange- 

 colored throughout, the margin fringed with hairs; hymenium 

 watery-orange; hairs pale-yellow, straight, roughish; asci clavate- 

 cylindric, sessile, reaching a length of 50-60 n and a diameter of 

 5-6 ju, 8-spored; spores 2-seriate, ellipsoid, becoming 1 -septate, 

 2.5-4 X 10-17 ju; paraphyses filiform, scarcely thickened above, 

 with orange-colored granules. 



On rotten wood. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: West Virginia; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Jour. Bot. 34: pi. 357, f. 4. 



ExsiCCATi: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 3233. 



According to Massee (Jour. Bot. 34: 146) Helotiella NuttaUii 

 Ellis & Ev. is identical with Ilelotium trahinelloides Rehm dis- ■ 

 tributed in his Ascomycetes 853. 



5. Helotiella cornuta (Ellis) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 474. 1889. 

 Peziza cornuta Ellis, Bull. Torrey Club 9: 73. 1882. 



Apothecia gregarious, minute, dull-white, flesh-colored when 

 dry, sessile, thin, membranaceous, the margin sparingly fringed 

 with straight, 4-5-septate, white, spreading hairs; asci clavate- 

 cylindric, reaching a length of 50-60 ix and a diameter of 8-10 /x; 

 spores 2-seriate, fusiform, becoming 1 -septate, with a short, 

 bristle-like appendage at either end, 3-4 X 12 ju; paraphyses 

 filiform. 



On decaying chestnut wood. 



Type locality: Westchester, Pennsylvania. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Ellis writes: "I have not seen P. arachnoidea Schw. but that 

 is said to be 'white villous,' while this in only ciliate." 



6. Helotiella major Ellis & Ev. Proc. Acad. Sci. Phila. 1894: 



351. 1894. 



Apothecia gregarious, often confluent, sessile, 1-2 mm. in 

 diameter, externally dull-white, and densely clothed, especially 

 about the margin, with short, pale, glandular hairs, expanded 

 when fresh, the margin incurved when dry, attached by spreading, 

 white filaments; asci cylindric or subcylindric, reaching a length 

 of 65-70 M and a diameter of 7-8 m, 8-spored; spores mostly 2- 



