290 The North American Cup-Fungi 



seriate, elongate-ellipsoid, slightly curved, becoming 1 -septate, 

 or occasionally 3-septate, 2.5-3 X 12-16 n\ paraphyses not 

 observed. 



On rotten wood. 



Type locality: Ann Arbor, Michigan. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



7. Helotiella papyricola Ellis & Ev. Proc. Acad. Sci. Phila. 1894: 

 351. 1894. 



Apothecia gregarious, sessile, or contracted below into a 

 very short stipe, pale-orange, of a soft-waxy consistency, discoid 

 when fresh, .2-. 3 mm. in diameter, subspherical and nearly 

 closed when dry, outside sparingly furfuraceous, margin fringed 

 with short, spreading hairs; asci cylindric, very short-stipitate, 

 reaching a length of 50-60 ^ and a diameter of 12 /x, 8-spored; 

 spores 2-seriate, fusoid, slightly curved, with two to four oil- 

 drops, finally 1 -septate, 3 X 12-15 ^t; paraphyses filiform. 



On old paper on the ground. 



Type locality: Ann Arbor, Michigan. 



Distribution: Michigan and New Jersey. 



Excluded Species 



Helotiella Russellii (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 476. 1889; 

 Peziza Russellii Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Grevillea 3: 158. 1875. This is un- 

 doubtedly a Nectria. No material has been seen. 



55. ERINELLINA Seaver, nom. nov. 



£nnf//a Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 507. 1889. Not £rmf//a Quel. 1886. 

 ?Dasyscyphella Tranz. Hedwigia 38: Beibl. (11). 1899. 



Apothecia cup-shaped, or subdiscoid, externally clothed with 

 hyaline, or subhyaline hairs; h\menium plane, or concave, 

 variously colored; hairs rigid, or more often flexuous, smooth, or 

 rough; asci cylindric to clavate, usually 8-spored; spores much 

 elongated, fusiform to filiform, hyaline, or subhyaline, 3-many- 

 septate; paraphyses filiform, clavate, or lanceolate. 



Type species, Peziza simiUima Berk. & Br. 



The genus ErineUa was established b}' Quelet and is a straight 

 synonym of Lachnella as used here. Saccardo took up the name 

 but used it in an entirely different sense thus creating a homonym. 

 The new^name above is proposed for the genus as treated by 

 Saccardo. 



