294 The North American Cup-Fungi 



a length of 60 /i and a diameter of 6-7 fi, 8-spored ; spores fas- 

 ciculate, fusoid-filiform, usually 3-septate, subhyaline, 2 X 18- 

 40 n ; paraphyses 2 /x in diameter, acute at their apices. 



On bark of some tree. 



Type locality: Brazil. 



Distribution: Central to South America and the West 

 Indies. 



Doubtful Species 



Dasyscyphella acutipila Cash, Univ. Iowa Stud. Nat. Hist. 17: 216. 1937. 

 On woody stems in Panama. Spores 1 X 33-45 n. No specimens have been 

 seen. 



Erinella horealis Povah, Mycologia 24: 241. 1932. Described from ma- 

 terial collected on dead stems of Chamaedaphne calyculata on Isle Royale, 

 Michigan. Later reported by Dr. B. Kanouse (Papers Mich. Acad. Sci. 20: 

 74. 1935) as synonymous with Dasyscyphella Cassandrae Tranz.; Erinella 

 Cassandrae Sacc. & Syd. in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 16: 757. 1902. No material 

 has been seen. 



Erinella raphidophora (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 509. 1889; 

 Peziza raphidophora Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour Linn. Soc. 10: 368. 1868. 

 First globose, then expanded, clothed with short, white hairs, the margin in- 

 flexed; asci elongate; spores linear, variable in length, but about 25 m long. On 

 rotten wood, Cuba and Venezuela. 



Erinella similis Bres. Hedwigia 35: 296. 1896. This species has been 

 doubtfully reported from Porto Rico by the writer. Spores 2-3 X 35-4 n. 



56. ECHINELLA Massee, Brit. Fungus-Fl. 4: 304. 1895. 



Apothecia sessile, at first closed, then expanding and becom- 

 ing cup-shaped; for some distance down the sides clothed with 

 black, or brown hyphae; asci clavate, 8-spored; spores irregu- 

 larly 2-seriate, hyaline, narrowly fusiform, becoming 3 many- 

 septate; paraphyses filiform or slightly clavate. 



Type species, Peziza Vectis Berk. & Br. 



Distinguished from Pirottaea Sacc. by the elongated spores, 

 and from Erinellina by the dark-colored hairs. 



Echinella rhabdocarpa (Ellis) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza rhabdocarpa Ellis, Bull. Torrey Club 9: 19. 1882. 

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



Apothecia scattered, sessile, .5 mm. in diameter, the margin 

 clothed with short, black, fasciculate, obtusely clavate hairs; 

 asci clavate-cylindric, reaching a length of 65-75 n and a diameter 

 of 10 )u; spores linear, multi-septate ?, nearly as long as the ascus. 



