104 MINNESOTA BOTANICAL STUDIES. 



variety and since II. aspcgrcnii ( Fries) Phill. agrees perfectly with 

 the specimens considered, it is placed there. 



Plates- Gill Discom. Franc, pi. yy. fig. i. 



2. Hymenoscypha cyathoidea (Bull.) Phill. Man. Brit. Discom. 140. 

 1887. 



Pczica cyathoidea liull. Hist. Champ. ¥v. 250. t. 416. f. 3. 1791. 



Scattered or gregarious, stipitate, cyathiform deeply concave, 

 tough, persistent; margin entire, whitish to tan-colored when old, 

 1-1.5 mm. in diameter; stipe attenuated downward, glabrous, v.'hit- 

 ish to tan-colored, to 2 mm. long ; spores narrowly elliptical-fusiform, 

 acute, straight or curved slightly, hyaline, smooth, continuous, often 

 with two small guttulae, one in each end, 6-9 x 1.5 mic. ; paraphy.'-cs 

 scarce, slender, filiform. 



On dead herbaceous stems of several herbaceous plants ; Hen- 

 nepin, July 1903, Freeman 1406. 



H. cyathoidea (Bull.) Phill. is separated from Hclotium scvtida 

 Pers. by its smaller as well as continuous spores. 



Exsiccati : Krieger, Fungi Sax. 1444; Sydow, Mycoth. ]\Iarch. 

 4170. 1577. 1473. Z7^\ Plates: Saccardo, Fungi Ital. pi. 1324. 



II. CYATHICULA DENOTARIS. 



Cups solitary, small, firm, waxy, stipitate. concave, margin fur- 

 nished with acute, ridged teeth ; exterior glabrous and smooth ; 

 spores fusiform, smooth, hyaline, continuous. 



I. Cyathicula corcnata (Bull.) DeNotaris, Pro. Rett. Discom. 381. 

 1864. 



Peziza coroiiafa Bull. Hist. Champ. Franc. 251. t. 416. f. 4. 1791. 



Scattered, stipitate, first closed to subglobose then cup-shaped, gla- 

 brous excepting margin, yellowish to tan-colored all over, to 4 mm. 

 in diameter ; hymenium even ; margin toothed, fringed with acute, 

 whitish teeth, which curve in when young and when dry ; stipe 

 slender, 1-7 mm. long; spores fusiform, acute, smooth, curved or 

 straight, continuous, 14-16x3-4 mic, with two or more guttulae; 

 paraphyses slender. 



On herbaceous stems, possibly nettles lying on moist ground, 

 close to stagnant w^ater in pot-holes of State Park; Chisago, Sept. 

 1904, Hone 470. 



Exsiccati : Sydow, Alycoth. March. 4367 ; Krieger, Fungi Sax. 

 1482; Plates: Rehm, Raben. Krypt. Fl. i : 3 : 705. f. 1-5; Lindau, 

 Eng. & Prantl. Nat. Pflanz. 1:2: 205. f. 160; Saccardo, Fungi Ital. 



