336 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Fungi P3; Rav. Fungi Car. 5: 38; Rab.-Winter, Fungi Eu. 3463 

 (From Missouri) ; Wilson & Seaver, Ascom. 91. 



2. Pezicula corylina Groves, Mycologia 30: 47. 1938. 



Excipida turgida Fries, Syst. Myc. 2: 189. 1822. 

 Cenangium turgidum Duby, Bot. Gall. 2: 736. 1830. 

 Catinula turgida Desm. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 18: 374. 1852. 

 Sphaeronema Coryli Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 24: 85. 1872. 



Conidial fruiting bodies erumpent, thickly scattered, or 

 more or less in rows, mostly separate, sometimes two or three 

 together, cylindric to cylindric-conic, or compressed when dry 

 and subhysteriform, opening out widely when moist, .2-5 mm. 

 in diameter, .3-.5 mm. in height, black, or dark-olivaceous, 

 hard, brittle, fleshy-leathery when moist; conidia ellipsoid 

 8-10 X 17-28 /x. 



Apothecia erumpent, scattered, or more or less in rows, 

 separate, or cespitose, circular, sometimes crowded, sessile, 

 narrowed below, pale-yellow, slightly pruinose when dry, much 

 brighter when moist, close to sulphur-yellow, minute, .2-5 mm. 

 in diameter, .2-.4 mm. in height, soft-waxy in consistency, more 

 fleshy when moist; hymenium at first concave, then plane to 

 convex, slightly pruinose, pale-yellow to slightly reddish, margin 

 at first forming a delicate lighter border, later disappearing; asci 

 cylindric-clavate, short-stalked, usually 8-spored, occasionally 

 4-spored, 15-20 X 85-125 n; spores oblong-ellipsoid, hyaline, 

 straight, or slightly curved, simple, or 1 -septate, irregularly 

 biseriate, 6 10 X 15-27 m; paraphyses hyaline, filiform, simple, 

 or branched, septate, 2-2.5 ^ in diameter, the tips swollen to 

 3.5 /i, forming a slight epithecium. 

 On Corylus rostrata. 



Type locality: Bear Mountain, Temagami Forest Reserve, 

 Ontario, Canada. 



Distribution: Pennsylvania to Washington and Canada; 

 also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Mycologia 30: 48,/. ;,- 49,/. 2. 

 ExsicCATi: Reliq. Farlow. 106 (as Cenangium turgidum); 

 Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 949; Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 1622. 



3. Pezicula alnicola Groves, Mycologia 32: 120. 1940. 

 ? Cenangium tennesseense Kanouse, Mycologia 33: 462. 1941. 



Conidial stage inconspicuous, developing beneath the outer 

 bark splitting it but scarcely breaking through, the conidia 



