Cenangella 311 



On branches of Carpinus and Ilex. 

 Type locality: South Carolina. 



Distribution: Pennsylvania to Missouri and Alabama. 

 Exsiccati: Rav. Fungi Car. 4: 66; Rab. -Winter, Fungi Eu. 

 3464 (from Perry ville, Missouri). 



2. Cenangella oricostata Cash, Mycologia 28: 298. 1936. 



Apothecia coriaceous, subglobose, sessile, depressed, and 

 radiately ridged at the apex, collapsing when old, emerging some- 

 times singly, more often in groups from cracks in the bark, on 

 a thin, sclerotic layer, dark grayish-olive, olivaceous-black when 

 dry, 1-2 mm. in diameter, not quite so high, slightly furfura- 

 ceous; hymenium pallid-grayish; asci cylindric, or subcylindric, 

 short-stipitate, reaching a length of 130 m and a diameter of 6-8 /x; 

 spores fusoid-clavate, 1 -seriate, or 2-seriate, hyaline, 1-septate, 

 not constricted, upper cell broader, lower cell acute, 3-4 X 12- 

 15 /x; paraphyses filiform, slightly swollen above and often 

 curved at their apices. 



On twigs of Rihes Wolfii. 



Type locality: Mesa Lakes, Colorado. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Illustrations: Mycologia 28: 302,/. 4. 



Doubtful and Excluded Species 



Cenangella abietina Ellis & Ev. Proc. Acad. Sci. Phila. 1895: 429. 1895; 

 Phaeangella abietina Sacc. & D. Sacc; Sacc. Syll. P^ung. 18: 128. 1906. 

 Based on material collected by Waghorn in Newfoundland. Identity uncer- 

 tain. 



Cenangella flavocinerea (Phill.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 591. 1889; Dermatea 

 flavocinerea Phill. Grevillea 7: 23. 1878. No material has been seen. 



Cenangella Hartzii Rostr. Medd. Gr0nl. 3: 611. 1891. Apothecia 

 densely gregarious, discoid, margin brown, reaching a diameter of .25-.5 mm.; 

 hymenium black; asci clavate, reaching a length of 35-40 y. and a diameter of 

 7-9 yu, 8-spored; spores 2-seriate, ellipsoid, olivaceous, 1-septate, 4-5 X 7-9 fi. 

 On decorticated branches of Bettila. Known only from the type locality in 

 Greenland. 



Cenangella pruinosa Rostr. Medd. Gr0nl. 18: 59. 1894. No material 

 has been seen. On Vaccinium uliginosum. 



Cenangella Rhododendri (Cesati) Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl.P: 230. 1889; 

 Peziza Rhododendri Cesati; Rab. Bot. Zeit. 12: 186. 1854; Velutaria Rhodo- 

 dendri Rehm, Ber. Naturh. Ver. Angsburg 26: 63. 1881. Reported from 

 Oregon. No material has been seen. 



Cenangella thujina]E]\\?. & Barth. in Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 3132. 1894. 

 This belongs with the Hysteriaceae and may be a Glonium. 



