WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY III 



H. CITRINUM (Hedw.) Fr. 



On wet dead log. Short Creek, alt. 1,800 ft. Sept. 12, 

 1893 (Nuttall, 1201). 



H. CASTANEUM SaCC. 



On leaves of Rhododendron maximum. Short Creek, alt. 

 i ,800 ft. Sept. 12, 1893 (Nuttall, 1206). 

 H. EPHIPHYLLUM (Pers.) Fr. 



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



H. PHYLLOPHILUM Desm. 



On decaying leaves (Sheldon, 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 (Sheldon, 3514). 



P. CYATHOIDES (Bull.) Gill. 



(Sheldon, 3544). 

 P. VIRGULTORUM (Vahl.) Sacc. 



On old grape twigs on wet ground. Asci 105 x 7.5 /* 

 Spores 18 x 4 fi. Nov. i, 1894 (Nuttall, 1735). (Sheldon, 

 1080). 



PSEUDOHELOTIUM Fckl. 



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



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

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

 oblong short-stipitate, total length 65 x 7.5 p (appro*.)* 

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

 straight or slightly curved, 12:018x3^ (Nuttall, 1764). 



CYATHICULA De Not. 



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



TYPE HABITAT : On dead racemes of Quercus Prinits, 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 dry. Asci cylindrical, sub- 

 sessile, 55 to 65 x 6 to 7 /z, with filiform paraphyses scarcely 

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

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



