Hone: pezizales, phacidiales and tuberales of minn. 107 



and others, in moist places ; Goodhue, Aug. 1893, Anderson 805 ; 

 Ramsey, Sept. 1896, Freeman 230; Houston, Aug. 1900, Lyon 745; 

 Ramsey, Sept. 1903, Freeman 1384. 



The spores of all collections, excepting Freeman 1384, are rather 

 small and do not show septa. They seem to be immature forms of 

 f] . scutiila (Pers.) Karst. 



Exsiccati : Sydow, Mycoth. March. 158; Krieger, Fungi Sax. 

 187 a-c. Plates: Saccardo, Fungi Ital. pi. 1339. 



13. CORYNE TULASNE. 



Cups gregarious or single, gelatinous, substipitate, concave to 

 plane, minute ; exterior glabrous and smooth ; spores narrowly el- 

 liptical, smooth hyaline, at maturity several-celled. 



I. Coryne versiformis (Pers.) Rehm, Rabh. Kryptfl. 1:3: 492. 1896. 



Peziza z'crsifonnis Pers. Icon, et Descr. Fung. Fasc. i. p. 25. t. 

 7. f. 7. 1798. 



Scattered, shortly stipitate, tough, cupulate, irregular, glabrous, 

 1-2 cm. across; hymenium dingy-green to yellowish-green when 

 dried, even ; exterior when dry a yellowish-brown with greenish 

 cast ; spores elliptical, narrow, straight or curved, hyaline, blunt, 

 smooth, all that were found were continuous, 10-12 x 2-4 mic. ; 

 ,])araphyses slender. 



On old rotten stumps ; St. Louis, July 1886, Holway 267. 



Cory lie versiformis (Pers.) Rehm is distinguished from Chloro- 

 spleniuin by its decided yellowish color with none of the clear 

 green cast of a Chlorosplenium; also by its lack of power to turn, 

 the wood upon which it grows green. The whole subgelatinous 

 consistency of the cup is that of a Coryne and not that of a Chloro- 

 splenium. 



Exsiccati : Ellis, North American Fungi. 988. 



Family IlL Mollisiaceae. 



Mycelium partially or wholly superficial or within the substra- 

 tum ; saprophytic or parasitic ; cups superficial or immersed in epi- 

 dermis at first, fleshy-waxy or cartilaginous or subgelatinous, rare- 

 ly membranous, globose becoming concave, then plane, sessile, ex- 

 terior glabrous or hairy, hypothecium forming a distinct layer, ex- 

 eiple composed of dark, more or less rounded, thick-walled ceils. 



