WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY III 



H. citrinu:m (Hedw.) Fr. 



On wet dead log. Short Creek, alt. i,8oo ft. Sept. 12, 

 1893 {N lit tall, 1201). 



H. CASTANEUM SaCC. 



On leaves of Rhododendron niaxhnimi. Short Creek, alt. 

 1,800 ft. Sept. 12, 1893 {XiittaU, 1206). 

 H. EPHiPHYLLUM (Pers.) Fr. 



On decaying leaves, twigs, etc. (Sheldon, 3428). 

 H. PHYLLOPHiLUM Desm. 



On decaying leaves (She/don, 3363). 

 H. FRUCTiGENUM Rehm. 



On dead wood, leaves, chestnut bur and acorn (Sheldon, 

 3470). 



H. FRATERNUM Peck. 



(Sheldon, 3377). 



PHIALEA Fr. 

 P. scuTULA (Pers.) Gill. 



On decaying herbaceous stems (SJieldon, 3514). 



P. CYATHOIDES (Bull.) Gill. 



(Sheldon, 3544). 

 P. viRGULTORUM (Vahl.) Sacc. 



On old grape twigs on wet ground, x^sci 105 x 7.5 1.1. 

 Spores 18 X 4 ix. Nov. i, 1894 (Xnttall, 1735). (Sheldon, 

 1080). 



PSEUDOHELOTIU^I Fckl. 



P. FIBRISEDUM (B. & C. ) SaCC. 



On wet dead wood of Juglans cinerea, Dec. 5, 1894. Alore 

 than 2 mm. diameter, margin ciliate, red-maculate ; asci 

 oblong short-stipitate, total length 65 x 7.5 fi (approx.), 

 paraphyses filiform. Spores hyaline i-septate ( ?) oblong, 

 straight or slightly curved, 12 to 18 x 3 ;u, (Nuttall, 1764). 



CYATHICULA De Not. 



C. ouisouiLiARis E. & E.. Proc. Phila. Acad.. 451 (1893). 



Type habitat : On dead racemes of Quercus Prinus, 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-squamulose outside, margin distinctly 

 cleft-toothed and incurved when dr}'. Asci cylindrical, sub- 

 sessile, 55 to 65 X 6 to 7 ju.. with filiform paraphyses scarcely 

 thickened above. Sporidia uniseriate, or sub-biseriate above, 

 elliptical, hyaline, continuous, 6 to 8 x 3 to 4 /^. 



