Dermatella 313 



Only one North American specimen of this species has been 

 seen, collected by Harold E. Parks in California. American 

 specimens agree well with European but the spores are a little 

 larger than indicated in most descriptions. The spores are only 

 pale-brown in our specimens. Fuckel describes and illustrates 

 the spores as muriform but this has not been noted by other 

 authors. 



2. Dermatella deformata (Peck) Seaver, comb. nov. (Plate 



134.) 



Cenangium deformatiim Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 28: 68. 1876. 



Cenangella deformata Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 593. 1889. 



Phaeangella deformata Sacc. & D. Sacc; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 18: 128. 1906. 



Apothecia erumpent, occurring singly, in small cespitose 

 clusters, or with a serial arrangement, the individual apothecia 

 at first rounded, gradually opening leaving the margin irregu- 

 larly split and ragged, black and coarsely granular, reaching a 

 diameter of 1.5 mm.; hymcnium concave, lighter than the out- 

 side of the apothecium; asci broad-clavate, about 120 /x long and 

 35-45 /x broad, normall>' 8-spored, but often with part of the 

 spores undeveloped; spores irregularly 2-seriatc, broad-ellipsoid, 

 1 -septate and deeply constricted at the septum, becoming dark- 

 brown, 14-16 X 30-35 /x; paraphyses filiform, profusely branched, 

 dark-brown with a greenish matrix. 



On Juniper us virginiana. Juniper us communis and Juniperus 

 scopulorum. 



Type locality: Greenbush, New York. 



Distribution: New York, Montana and Wyoming and 

 Bermuda. 



Illustrations: Mycologia 34: 520, /. 2. 



ExsiccATi: Ellis & Ev. Fungi Columb. 1225. 



Excellent material of this species was collected by the writer 

 and J. M. Waterston in Bermuda on Bermuda cedar, Juniperus 

 hermudiana. 



3. Dermatella Fraxini Ellis & Ev. Proc. Acad. Sci. Phila. 1893: 



149. 1893. 



Apothecia gregarious, erumpent-superficial, occurring singly 

 or with two or three grouped together, flesh-colored, reaching a 

 diameter of .75 1 mm., contracted below and slightly turbinate; 

 hymenium plane, or convex, similar in color to the outside of the 

 apothecium; asci clavate, cylindric, reaching a length of 125- 



