Erinellina 291 



Spores 100-120 /x long. 



Apothecia sessile, on Pinus. 1. E. rhaphidospora. 



Apothecia stipitate, on undetermined bark. 2. E. calospora. 



Spores 40-65 m long. 



Hymenium orange to scarlet. 3. E. miniopsis. 



Hynienium pallid to brown. 



Apothecia sessile. 4. E. cervina. 



Apothecia short-stipitate. 5. E. appressa. 



Spores 16-40 n long. 



On living leaves of Persea. 6. E. maculosa. 



On dead herbaceous stems or wood. 



Hairs yellowish, on herbaceous stems. 7. E. Nylanderi. 



Hairs white, on bark. 8. E. longispora. 



1. Erinellina rhaphidospora (Ellis) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza rhaphidospora Ellis, Bull. Torrey Club 6: 107. 1876. 

 Erinella rhaphidospora Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 509. 1889. 



Apothecia gregarious, sessile, minute, subconfluent, white- 

 tomentose; hymenium plane, or sHghtly convex; asci cylindric- 

 clavate, reaching a length of 100-140 /i and a diameter of 12-20 n, 

 8-spored; spores nearly as long as the ascus (multiseptate?). 



On trunks of Pinus. 



Type locality: Newfield, New Jersey. 



Distribution : New Jersey to Pennsylvania, and Bermuda. 



ExsiccATi: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 842. 



2. Erinellina calospora (Pat.) Seaver, comb. nov. 

 Erinella calospora Pat. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 4: 101. 1888. 



Apothecia scattered, turbinate, short-stipitate, 2-3 mm. in 

 diameter, externally white-tomentose; hymenium orange-yellow; 

 hairs long, cylindric, fiexuous; asci cylindric, substipitate, reach- 

 ing a length of 120-150 n and a diameter of 12-15 /x; spores 

 nearly as long as the ascus, 2-3 X 90-120 n, 6-14-septate, sub- 

 hyaline; paraphyses simple, or branched, thickened above, 

 septate, hyaline. 



On bark of some tree. 



Type locality: Venezuela. 



Distribution: South America and the West Indies. 



Illustrations: Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 4: pi. 18, f. 7. 



3. Erinellina miniopsis (Ellis) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza miniopsis Ellis, Bull. Torrey Club 8: 66. 1881. 



Erinella miniopsis Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 510. 1889. 



Dasyscyphella miniopsis Kanouse, Papers Mich. Acad. Sci. 23: 151. 1938. 



