292 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Apothecia gregarious, sessile, minute, less than 1 mm. in 

 diameter, clothed with a white-tomentose coat of crisped hairs; 

 hymenium concave, orange to scarlet; asci clavate-cylindric, 

 reaching a length of 95 n and a diameter of 12 /x, 8-spored; 

 spores crowded, linear-lanceolate, 50-65 ^ long, becoming multi- 

 septate; paraphyses filiform, not thickened above. 



On the outer bark of Acer rubrum. 



Type locality: Newfield, New Jersey. 



Distribution: New Jersey to New Hampshire. 



ExsiCCATi: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 563; Barth. Fungi Columb. 

 2428; Reliq. Farlow. 115. 



4. Erinellina cervina (Ellis & Ev.) Seaver, comb. nov. 

 Erinella cervina Ellis &. Ev. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 468. 1897. 



Apothecia gregarious, sessile, at first subglobose, becoming 

 urceolate, the margin incurved leaving only a small rounded 

 opening, stag-colored; short-tomentose; hymenium concave, 

 pallid ; asci cylindric, or subcylindric, with a short, stem-like base, 

 reaching a length of 75-85 /x and a diameter of 7-9 m. 8-spored ; 

 spores fasciculate, acicular, attenuated toward each end, 2-2.5 X 

 50-60 m; paraphyses stout, rather longer than the asci, scarcely 

 enlarged above, 2-2.5 n thick. 



On decaying birch limbs. 



Type locality: Dillon, Colorado. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



The type specimen is in the herbarium of The New York 

 Botanical Garden. 



5. Erinellina appressa (Cash) Seaver, comb. nov. 

 Dasyscyphella appressa Cash, Univ. Iowa Stud. Nat. Hist. 17: 217. 1937. 



Apothecia obconic to infundibuliform, short-stipitate, .2-1 

 mm. in diameter .5 mm. high, waxy-membranous, ochraceous- 

 tawny, pilose; hairs pale-brown, verrucose; hymenium cinnamon- 

 brown; asci cylindric, narrowed above, reaching a length of 90- 

 110 /i and a diameter of 7-9 ju, short-stipitate, 8-spored; spores 

 fasciculate, filiform, 2-2.5 X 40-55 n, subhyaline 1-5-septate; 

 paraphyses filiform, 1.5 n thick. 



On woody stem. 



Type locality: Panama. 



Distribution : Panama and Colombia. 



Illustrations: Univ. Iowa Stud. Nat. Hist. 17: pi. 14, f. 2. 



