48 NATURAL HISTORY BULLETIN 



SPATHULARIA Pers., Tent. Disp. Meth. Fung. 36. 1797. 



Receptacle fleshy, stipitate, vertical, compressed laterally, ex- 

 tending down two opposite sides of the stem; spores 8, filiform, 

 hyaline, paraphyses filiform. 



One species found in the northeast part of the state. 



Spathularia clavata (Schaeff.) Sacc, Michelia 2:77. 1880. 



Plate 1, f. i. 



Elvela clavata Scha?ff., Icon. Fung. pi. 149. 1767. 

 Spathularia flavida Pers., Tent. Disp. Meth. Fung. 3n. 1797. 



Receptacle spatulate, compressed, nearly even, yellow; margin 

 $ften crisped, or undulated, 2 to 5 cm. high; stem light colored, 

 whitish ; asci clavate, 8-spored ; spores filiform, 50 to 60 by 2 to 

 3/a, guttulate or granular within; paraphyses filiform, branched, 

 numerous. 



On the ground in pine woods, summer ; collected by B. Shimek, 

 Winneshiek county. 



Plants distinguished by their yellow color. The pileus is flat- 

 tened laterally so as to be spoon-shaped, or spatulate and is often 

 much contorted and twisted. 



A note from Mr. Holway after the publication of the Discomy- 

 cetes of Eastern Iowa states that this species has been found in 

 but one locality in the northeast part of the state, in a piece of 

 pine timber where it grows on the ground among leaves and 

 twigs. This stands as a correction to the statement made in the 

 paper quoted above that these plants are common. 



LEOTIA Pers., Tent. Disp. Meth. Fung. 17. 1797. 



Receptacle stipitate, gelatinous, pileate, roundish or spreading, 

 revolute, at the margin; hymenium covering the upper surface 

 and margin of the pileus, under surface sterile ; hymenium undu- 

 lated or even; stem cylindrical or laterally compressed; asci 

 clavate, 8-spored; spores fusiform or linear, hyaline. 



Leotia stipitata (Bosc.) Schr., Nat. Pfl. Fam. 1:166. 1897. 



Plate 1, f. ii. 

 Tremella {hygromitra) stipitata Bosc, Berl. Mag. 5 : 89. 1811. 



