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stipe, usually bright-colored and small. J'ara])hyses slender, fili- 

 form, slightly wider at the ends. Asci cylindrical or somewhat 

 cylindrico-clavate. S]jores 8, ovoid, oblong or somewhat rounded,, 

 hyaline. 



(jrowing on decorticate wood and herbaceous stems. 



The genus differs from Ilelotium in the more slender stipe, 

 in the apothecia being urceolate and more or less colored at first. 



Phialea scittiila ( Pers. ) Gill. Les Disco, de Fr. io8. 1879. 

 Peziza scutula Pers. Mycol. Eur. i : 284. 1882. 



Apothecia scattered, 2-3 mm. broad, cup-shaped becoming 

 almost plane, stipitate, interior ])ale yellow, exterior same color. 

 Stipe 5-8 mm. long, slender. Hymenium and hypothecium pale 

 or colorless. Paraphyses filiform, slightly wider at the ends. 

 Asci cylindrico-clavate. Spores pseudo-septate, guttulate. 3 or 

 4 oil globules, fusiform or oblong-elliptic, 16-18 mic. long and 

 ^-^ mic. wide. 



Growing on old stems in flamp jolaces. 



Coll. Freda M. Bachman. Oct. 31, 1907. Bruce Fink. July 

 4. 1908. 



Genus III. L.vchxella Fr. Sum. A>g. Scand. 365. 1849. 



Type Species. Lachnella flammea (Alb. and Schw.) Fr. 



Mycelium within the sub-stratum. Apothecia fleshy-waxy^ 

 firm, sessile, at first closed and globose, then expanded, exterior 

 pilose or villous, small. Hairs of the cu\) hyaline or colored. 

 Paraph}ses filiform r)r needle-Iikc usual!}- exceeding the asci in 

 length. Asci cylindrico-clavate or clavate. Spores 8, simple,, 

 hyaline, oblong, oblong-elliptic or ovoid. 



Growing on decaying wood, stems, or leave'^. 



-^Lachnella papillaris (Bull.) Phil. Brit. Disco. 257. 1887. 



Peziza papillaris Bull. Hist. Champ. Fr. pi. 467, f. i. 

 1 787- 1795- 

 Apothecia caespitose or scattered, 1-2 mm. broad, cup- 

 shaped becoming nearly plane but closed when dry, sessile, in- 

 terior pallid, exterior of the same color but covered with brown, 

 septate, blunt hairs, having crystal granules on the ends. Hy- 



