Hone: pezizales, phacidiales and tuberales of minx, hi 



Family V. Cenangiaceae. 



Mycelium within the substratum ; saprophytic ; cups at first more 

 or less immersed, becoming superficial, often enclosed within a 

 membrane, which disappears with age, leathery, waxy or gelatinous, 

 concave or cupulate, dark-colored, sessile, small, hyothecium and ex- 

 ciple well-developed ; paraphyses forming a well-developed epithe- 

 cium. 



I. CENANGIUM FRIES. 



Cups caespitose or single, erumpent, leathery, sessile, brown, 

 small ; exterior scurvy, whitish ; spores narrowly elliptical, smooth, 

 hyaline, continuous. 



I. Cenangium furfuraceum (Roth.) DeNot. Prop. Rett. Discom. 30. 

 1864. 



Pcziza fnrfiiracea Roth. Cat. Bot. 2: 257. tab. 9. fig. 3. 1797- 

 1806. 



Caespitose or solitary, erumpent, dry and leathery, sessile ; mar- 

 gin entire, incurved, irregular ; hymenium naked and smooth, 

 brownish to yellowish-brown, to 1.5 cm. in diameter; exterior white, 

 densely covered with white to rust-colored scurf, or mealy, base 

 narrowed and plicate ; spores narrowed, elliptical, obtuse, slightly 

 smooth, hyaline, continuous, 6-10x2-3 mic. ; paraphyses slightly 

 clavate, brown at apex. 



Cn dead limbs of Acer spicatuni ; Lake, June 1893, Sheldon 4750. 



Exsiccati: Xew Foundland Fungi. Waghorne. 116 (Det. by 

 Peck); Ellis, and Everhart, Xorth American Fungi. 3547; Fungi 

 of Cayuga Lake Basin, X. Y. Jackson 112 (Det. by Durand). 

 Plates: Saccardo, Fungi Ital. pi. 1312; Kalkbrenner, Szepsi Jegy. 

 2. pi. 3. 



2. GODRONIA MOUGEOT. 



Cups gregarious or mainly solitary, erumpent. tough to leathery- 

 fleshy, substipitate, globose then urn-shaped, margin concentric 

 striate ; exterior blackish-brown, scabrous ; spores needle-shaped, 

 smooth, hyaline, 5-7 septate. 



I. Godronia urceolus confertus n. var. 



Caespitose or very rarely single, 1-20 in a cluster, tough to fleshy, 

 erumpent, sessile when young, then stipitate, first globose, cupulate 

 or pitcher or urn-shaped with distinct stipe ; mouth first closed, open- 

 ing with a circular orifice ; margin concentric striate, naked ; hyme- 



