332 The North American Cup-Fungi 



outline, narrowed below, .3-1 mm. in diameter, dull-black 

 externally leathery to horny, becoming softer when moist; 

 hymenium concave, becoming plane, smooth, gray to blackish, 

 the margin infolded when dry; asci cylindric-clavate, short- 

 stemmed, 8-spored, 9-11 X 65-100 n; spores hyaline, ellipsoid to 

 subclavate, irregularly 2-seriate, simple, becoming 1-3-septate, 

 4-5 X 14-22 /x; paraphyses hyaline, filiform, branched, 1.5-2 ju 

 in diameter, scarcely enlarged above. 



Pycnidia often arising from the stroma, at first almost 

 globose, opening and becoming cup-shaped, reaching 2 mm. in 

 diameter; pycnidial cavities immersed in the disc, ovoid, about 

 25-75 X 75-100^1; conidiophores hyaline, tapering above, 1.5- 

 2.5 X 8-12 /x; conidia hyaline, elongated to subfiliform, straight, 

 or curved, simple, becoming 1-5-septate, 3-5 X 16-24 /x. 



On species of Abies. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New Hampshire to Michigan and North 

 Carolina; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Mycologia 28: 452,/. 1; 454,/. 2; 457,/. 3-6. 



27. Godronia abieticola (Zeller & Goodding) Seaver, comb. nov. 

 Sderoderris abieticola Zeller & Goodding, Phytopathology 20: 565. 1930. 



Apothecia single, or gregarious, from an erumpent stroma, 

 short-stipitate, or subsessile, .5-1.2 mm. in diameter, at first 

 closed, spherical, or ellipsoid, opening by a stellate, or irregular 

 cleft, then cup-shaped to expanded, externally smooth to flaky, 

 grayish-black to shiny-black; hymenium shiny-slate to shiny- 

 black; asci clavate, reaching a length of 118-135 ji and a diam- 

 eter of 9-14 n, 8-spored, or rarely 4-spored; spores filiform with 

 many oil-drops, finally distinctly 5-8-septate, 3.5-4.5 X 40-67 /x; 

 paraphyses filiform, slightly enlarged above, somewhat agglu- 

 tinated but not forming an epithecium. 



On cankers on living branches and twigs of Abies grandis 

 and Abies amabilis. 



Type locality: Oregon. 



Distribution: Oregon. 



Illustrations: Phytopathology 20: pi. 1, N~R. 



28. Godronia abietina (Ellis & Ev.) Seaver, comb. nov. 

 Sderoderris abietina Ellis & Ev. Am. Nat. 31: 427. 1897. 



Apothecia erumpent-superficial, black, subconical, about .5 

 mm. in diameter; hymenium plane, or convex, black; asci 



