GODRONIA 315 



On dead limbs of Carya {Hickoria). 

 Type locality: West Chester, Pennsylvania. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 

 The only specimen seen is the type collection in the herbarium 

 of The New York Botanical Garden. 



6. Dermatella montanensis Ellis & Ev. Proc. Acad. Sci. Phila. 

 1893: 148. 1893. 



Apothecia erumpent-superficial, discoid, or subdiscoid, reach- 

 ing a diameter of 1 mm., livid, subgelatinous when fresh; hy- 

 menium concave, black, with a thin, upturned margin when dry; 

 asci broad-clavate, reaching a length of 72-80 fx and a diameter 

 of 18-22 yL, 8-spored; spores irregularly 2-seriate, ellipsoid to 

 clavate-ellipsoid, becoming 3-septate, slightly constricted at the 

 septa, at first hyaline, becoming yellowish-brown, 7-8 X 24 ju; 

 paraphyses, branched, enlarged at their apices, forming a dark- 

 brown epithecium. 



On small, dead limbs among driftwood. 



Type locality: Sheridan, Montana. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Doubtful and Excluded Species 



Dermatella populina Petrak, Ann. Myc. 20: 196. 1922. On bark of 

 Populus tremuloides from Idaho, Weir No. 18002. Specimen of cot>pe ma- 

 terial shows no apothecia. 



Dermatella viticola Ellis & Ev. Proc. Acad. Sci. Phila. 1894: 352. 1894. 

 .'\pothecia conve.x-discoid and pale when moist, concave and flesh-colored when 

 dry, then scarcely projecting above the surface of the bark, .5-.75 mm. in 

 diameter; asci clavate-cylindric, reaching a length of 70 n and a diameter of 

 12 At, 8-spored; spores 2-seriate or partially so, ellipsoid, becoming 1-3-septate, 

 6-6.5 X 15-18 fx\ paraphyses filiform. On dead shoots of Vitis, Nuttallburg, 

 West Virginia. No material has been seen. It is probably not a Dermatella 

 as used here. 



8. GODRONIA Moug. Consid. Gen. Veg. Vosges 355. 1845. 



Crumenula DeNot. Comm. Critt. Ital. 1: 365. 1864. 

 Scleroderris (Fries) DeNot. Comm. Critt. Ital. 1: 383. 1864. 

 Ascocalyx Naumov, Bolesni Rast. 14: 138. 1925. 

 Atropellis Zeller & Goodding, Phytopathology 20: 561. 1930. 



Mougeot describes the genus as having apothecia which are 

 coriaceous, or gelatinous like Bulgaria, and with the spores of a 

 Stictis. The genus Godronia and the genus Stictis are strikingly 



