Hone: pezizales, phacidiales and tuberales of minn. ioi 



thread hearinp^ a minute and distinct globose head. This character 

 is common in this species and its ally, R. cchinophUa, growing upon 

 chestnut burrs. Sheldon suggested that the specimens might be a 

 Sclcrotijiia but there is no trace of a sclerotium. The preserved 

 specimens appear to have grown upon wood and the field notes do 

 not specify the host. 



Exsiccati: Sydow, Mycoth. March. 30 (Ciboria bolaris). The 

 spores measure slightly smaller but are of the same character; 

 Plates : Gill. Discom. Franc, pi. 74. fig. 2 ; Saccardo, Fung. Ital. pi. 

 1295; Boudier, Icones Mycol. 3. pi. 483. 



7. CHLOROSPLENIUM FRIES. 



Cups gregarious or solitary, w^axy, tough, stipitate, cupulate or 

 irregular, green or olivaceous ; exterior glabrous, smooth, often 

 darker than the interior; spores elliptical or fusiform, smooth, 

 greenish, continuous. 



1. Chlorosplenium aeruginosum (Oed.) DeNot. Prop. Rett. Disc. 22. 



1864. 



ElvcUa aeruginosum Oeder. Flor. Dan. t. 3. Fasc. 9. p. 7. tab. 

 534. f. 2. 1770. 



Gregarious or scattered, turning wood upon which it grows a 

 deep verdigris green, stipitate, tough, glabrous, cupulate, first closed 

 turbinate, finely expanded, very irregular, from cup to ear-shaped 

 or flattened ; margin wav}^, flexible, even ; hymenium often tan to 

 paris-green in color ; stipe slender expanding into cup, a deep green, 

 I mm. high ; spores fusiform-cylindrical, acute, curved or straight, 

 greenish in color or hyaline, smooth, continuous with small guttu- 

 lae in each end, 10-12x2 mic. ; paraphyses slender, filiform with 

 tinge of green at the apex. 



On rotten wood; Ramsey, 1889, Sheldon 17. 



Agrees in every respect, excepting the larger spores, with Ch. 

 aeruginasccns (Xyl.) Karst. This difterence in spore size has 

 been thought by Rehm (178, p. 753), and Lindau (124, p. 196), 

 sufficient basis upon which to distinguish the two species. 



Exsiccati : Ellis, North American Fungi. 987 ; Plates : Grev. Scott. 

 Cryptfl. 5. pi. 241. fig. 1-4; Gill. Discom. Franc, pi. 88. fig. i ; Sow. 

 Eng. Fung. 3. pi. 347. 



2. Chlorosplenium aeruginasccns (Nyl.) Karst. Myc. fenn. i: 103. 



1871. (Plate XIV. Fig. 2.^ 

 Pcziza acTuginascens Nyl. Pez. fenn. 42. 1869. 



