Hone: pezizali^is, i'iiaciuialks and tuberales of minn. 103 



sporidia uniseriate, elliptical, mostly with a single large nucleus, 

 );ello\vish-hyaline, 9-12x4-5 mic, acute. 



On decaying petioles ; St. Louis, July 1886, Holway 68. 



The above description is taken from Arthur's Report of P.ct. 

 Work in Alinn. Bull. No. 3. p. 35. 1887. 



9. PITYA FUCKEL. 



Cups gregarious, minute, fleshy-waxy, hemispherical becoming 

 convex, bright yellow, sessile ; exterior white, glabrous, base vil- 

 lose ; spores globose, hyaline, smooth, continuous. 



I. Pitya cupressi (Batsch.) Rehm, Rabh. Kryptfl. 1:3: 926. 1896. 



Pezisa cupressi Batsch. Elench. Fung. 119. 1783. 



Gregarious, sessile, or narrowed into a short, stem-like base, pear- 

 shaped and closed, becoming expanded, flattened, fleshy; margin 

 entire, glabrous, thick ; hymenium orange-yellow, even, to 4 mm. 

 in diameter ; exterior white with short stipe and base downy or 

 villose ; spores globose, hyaline, smooth, with one large central gutta, 

 8-10 mic. ; paraphyses filiform. 



Abundant on Thuja occidentalis; St. Louis, July 1886, Holway 

 225; Cook, Aug. 1903, Freeman & Ballard 116. 117. 



Exsiccati: Thiimen, Myc. univ. 718; Ellis & Everhart, North 

 American Fungi. 2322 ; Plates : Nees, Sys. Schwamme pi. 38. f. 287. 



10. HYMENOSCYPHA FRIES. 



Cups gregarious or solitary, minute or small, stipitate, concave, 

 tough to firm, waxy; exterior glabrous, smooth; stipe tapering- 

 downward ; spores elliptical, smooth, hyaline, continuous. 



I. Hymenoscypha aspegrenii (Fries) Phill. Man. Brit. Discom. 124. 

 1887. 



Peziza aspegrenii Fries, Sys. Myc. 2: 131. 1823. 



Gregarious, stipitate ; hymenium deep yellow, exterior lighter 

 to white, glabrous, to 3 mm. wide ; stipe white to light yellow when 

 dried, glabrous to minutely pubescent, slender, tapering down, 6-7 

 mm. long; spores fusiform to elliptical, acute, smooth, hyaline, con- 

 tinuous, biguttulate, 6-9 x 2-3 mic. ; paraphyses lanceolate, slender, 

 acute, just the apex longer than ascus. 



On sticks and wood on the ground; Hennepin, Sept. 1893, Shel- 

 don 5756; St. Louis, July 1886, Holway 228. 



Holway 228 has been determined by Ellis, as Helotinm citrinuin 

 var. longipes. As no description or record can be found of such a 



