i^o Field Columbian Museum — Botany, Vol. i. 



CYATHICULA De Not. 



C. quisquiliaris E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad., 451 (1893). 



Type habitat: On dead racemes of Quercus Pririiis, on dead 

 leaves, on rock in woods, April 2, 1893 {Nuttall, discov. 941). 



Gregarious, sessile, i to 1.5 mm. diameter, cup-shaped, disk 

 pale with a tinge of brick color when dry, dull, dirty-white and 

 purpuraceo-squammulose outside, margin distinctly cleft-toothed 

 and incurved when dry. Asci cylindrical, subsessile, 55 to 65 x 

 6 to 7 ,a, with filiform paraphyses scarcely thickened above. 

 Sporidia uniseriate, or sub-biseriate above, elliptical, hyaline, con- 

 tinuous, 6 to 8 X 3 to 4 /x. 



CHLOROSPLENIUM Fr. 



C. aeruginosum (OSder) De N. 



On loose core inside dead tree, Nov. 6, 1893. Disk more bril- 

 liant than margin in light and when young, in shadow varying to 

 pure white. Asci over 105 x 7.5 p. total length, spores guttata 

 12.5 X 3 <>. (Nuttall, 1235). 



C. versiforme (Pers.) Karst. 



On rotten mossy log, Short Creek, Oct. 28, 1893 {Nuttall, 1238). 



C. Sch-weinitzii Fr. 



Top of oak log, Dec. 10, 1893. Yellow in spring, green in 

 autumn and winter {Nuttall, 1276). 



MOLLISIA Fr. 



M. Dehnii (Rabenh) Karst. 



On Potent ilia Monspclicnsis, July 21, 1894 {Nuttall, 161 8). 



M. pinastri (C. & P. ) Sacc. 



On Pinus Virginiana, Dec. 3, 1894 {N^uttall, 1763). 



M. cinerea (Batsch.) Karst. 



Peziza cinerea Batsch. On decayed log, Monongalia Co., near 

 Morgantown ( Millspa ugh ) . 



PYRENOPEZIZA Fuckel. 



P. lacerata (C. & P.) Sacc. 



On Ruhus odoratiis, May 31, 1894. Asci 45 to 50 x 5 to 6 ;/. 

 Spores 8 to 12.5 x 2 to 2.5 //. {Nuttall, 1529). 



TAPES I A Pers. 



T. sanguinea (Pers.) Fckl. 



On dead log, and on Magnolia Prase;/ and /uglaus cinerea, June 

 10, 1894 {Nuttall, 1546). 



T. fusca (Pers.) Fckl. 



On rotten burned log Tsuga Canadensis; on dead rotting log 

 [uglans cinerea, alt. 1,300 ft. Asci 45 to 92 x 495 !>.. Spores 8 to 

 "10 x 2 a. Short Creek, Feb. 2, iSg^ {Nuttall, 1365). 



