WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY II3 



T. suBicuLATA (Schw.) Sacc. 



On wet sticks, June 15 and Oct. 25, 1893. Spores large. 

 10 X 3 /;i (Nuttall, 992). 



LACHNELLA Fr. 



L. ViRGiNiCA E. & E., Proc. Phila, Acad. 349 (1894). 



Type habitat : On decaying wood of Magnolia Fraseri, 

 Feb., 1894 (Nuttall, discov. 1410, 380). 



Gregarious, sessile, .75 to 1.2 mm. diameter. Disk pallid, 

 concave, nearly closed when dry, margin fringed with brown 

 septate hairs, 100 to 125 x 3 /x, outside clothed with shorter 

 reddish-brown hairs. Asci about 50 x 5 jn, clavate-syhndrical, 

 short stipitate, paraphysate, 8-spored. Sporidia sub-biseriate, 

 oblong, 6 to 8 X 1.5 to 2.5 jx. 



TRICHOPEZIZA Fuckel. 



T. sp. 



Torn end of firm dead tree, Short Creek, alt. 1,800 ft. Dec. 

 16, 1893 (Nuttall, 1326). 

 T. albo-lutea (Pers.) Sacc? 



On rotten log. Short Creek, June 18, 1893, stipitate 

 (Nuttall, 1013)." 

 T. capitata (Peck.) Sacc. 



On leaves Oncrcns pahistris on ground in woods, alt. 2,000 

 ft., June 18, 1893. At Rupert's, July 26, 1894 (Nuttall, 



lOIl). 



DASYSCYPHA Fr. 

 D. virginea (Batsch) Fckl. 



On dead sticks on wet cliff, and on wet dead wood of 

 Juglans cinerea, June 12, 1893 (Nuttall, 841). 

 D. LUTEOLA (Cun.) Sacc. 



On a stick (Hartley, 2974). 

 D. Ellisiana (Rehm.) Sacc. 



On Pinus rigida, top of Cavendish cliff, April 8, 1894 

 (Nuttall, 1447). 



HELOTIELLA Sacc. 

 H. Nuttallii E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad., 351 (1894). 



Type habitat : On wet shady side of rotten log, March 

 15, 1894 (Nuttall, discov. 1425, 397). 



Ascomata gregarious, sessile, flat-hemispherical, .5 to i 

 mm. diameter, cup-shaped when fresh, contracted and sub- 

 spherical when dry with only a small round apical opening, 

 orange color throughout, disk watery-orange, outside and 

 fringed margin paler. Substance fibrous, the fibers prolonged 



