Hone: pezizales, phacidiales and tuberales of minn. 109 



3. CALLORIA FRIES. 



Cups gregarious or single, minute, obconic to concave, subgelati- 

 nous, sessile or subsessile ; exterior glabrous and smooth ; spores el- 

 liptical, smooth, hyaline, 2-celled. 



I. Calloria aurea (Ellis) Sacc. Syll. Discom. 8: 640. 1889. 



Ombrophila aurca Ellis, Bull. Torn CI. 8:74. 1881. 



Gregarious or single, sessile, first obconic and concave, minute, 

 scarcely more than i mm. in diameter, orange or golden yellow 

 all over, subgelatinous, glabrous ; spores elliptical, obtuse or slightly 

 acute, smooth, biguttulate, uniseriate and ultimately uniseptate, 

 8-10 X 4 mic. ; paraphyses linear but very scarce. 



On rubbish in flower pots in the University Greenhouse; Henne- 

 pin, March 1908, Hone. 



The above specimens were wholly in the concave stage when 

 found and resembled somewhat externally some species of slime 

 mold. The smooth, biguttulate and tmiseptate spores characterize 

 the species. 



Exsiccati : Ellis, North American Fung. No. 395. 



Family IV. Patellariaceae. 



Mycelium wholly within the substratum ; saprophytic ; cups super- 

 ficial or immersed in epidermis, leathery or horny, globose or oval, 

 dark-colored, sessile, mainly small, hypothecium and exciple well- 

 developed ; paraphyses more or less adherent forming an epithecium. 



I. KARSCHIA KOERBER. 



Cups gregarious, small, sessile, coriaceous, superficial or slightly 

 erumpent ; disk round, plane then convex, black, margin entire and 

 even ; spores elliptical-fusoid, smooth, brown, 2-celled, constricted 

 at septa. 



I. Karschia taveliana Rehm, Rabh. Kryptfl. 1:3: 1223. 1896. 



Sparingly gregarious, sessile, jet black; margin uneven, wavy, 

 erect, slightly convex when moist; hymenium disk-like or saucer- 

 like, about I mm. in diameter, leathery; spores oblong- fusoid, nar- 

 row, I septate, not constricted, brown, smooth, thick- walled, 12- 

 16 x 4-5 mic. ; paraphyses filiform, swollen at tip and brown form- 

 ing epithecium. 



On rotten wood ; Sheldon 6237. 



The spores are too large for K. lignyofa Sacc. 



