122 Discomycetfe, Dermateacofr, HyalosporfP, Derraatea. 



nula Geastere Peck — Syll. XI p. 422 — condidit novum genus 

 Chorioactis, priecipue ob ascomatis dimensiones majusculas et stru- 

 cturam interiorem, de quibus confer loco citato» 



SCYTOPEZIS Clements in Bull. of the Torr. Bot. Cl. 1903, p. 87 

 (Etym. scytos corium et pezis pro Peziza). — Ascomata superfi- 

 cialia, sessilia, ceraceo-coriacea, hemisphn-rico-cupulata, atra, pilosa, 

 margine stellatim fisso, epithecio nullo. Paraphysos pricsentes. Ex- 

 cipulum crassum, nigro-brunneum, pseudoparenchymaticum, pilis 

 longis, atris, dense obsitum; hypothecium crassum, hyalinum, pro- 

 senchymaticum. Asci octospori, cyHndracei, inoperculati, jodo tin- 

 cti; sporidia continua, hyalina, elliptica, levia. Est Urnula &qsb\\\s, 

 excipulo parenchymatico. 



1. Scytopezis stellata Clem. 1. c. — Ascomatibus sessilibus, ctespi- :3r,i3 

 tosis, hemisphicrico-cupulatis, margine incurvo, in 6-8 lobos alte 

 stellatim fisso, hymenio umbrino-atro, paraphysibus 1-3 ramosis, 

 soptatis, apice dikite umbrinis, vix incrassatis 3 ;j.. lat , 1 cm. lat. 

 et alt. ; excipulo nigro-tomentoso, cellulis brunneis 10-12 ^* 20, se- 

 riatim dispositis, ad marginem subfuscescentibus minoribusque in 

 pilos confertos, contortos, septatos, umbrinos, plerumque simplices 

 250-350^4 productis, 150-250 [x crasso; hypothecio hyphis hya- 

 linis 4-6 [i. intricate intertextis 400 [i. cr. ; ascis octosporis arigu- 

 ste cyhndraceis, longe stipitatis, inoperculatis, 350« 12; sporis 

 aecte monostichis, ollipticis, levibus, hyalinis 22 >i 11. 



Hdb. ad ramum vetustum in torra muscosa sepultum, Minne- 

 haha, Amer. bor. 



DERMATEA Fr. — Syll. VIII p. 550, XI p. 422, XIV p. 794, 

 XVI p. 762. 



1. Dermatea puberula Durand in Journ. of Mycol. 1904, p. 101. — ^^ji, 

 Erumpons, plorumque in series olongatas, usque 2-3 cm. disposita; 

 ascomatibus 0,7-1 ram. diam., 2 v. pluribus e communi stromate 

 oriundis, omnino cinereis, extus pilosulo-pulverulentis . pilis co- 

 nidia cylindrico-clavata, hyalina v. ourva, continua, 30 - 6 snppo 

 gorcntibus; ascis clavatis, apico rotundatis vel sa^pius truncatis, 

 poro jodo cicrulescente, 150« 12, octosporis; sporidiis oblique 1- 

 seriatis, ollipsoidois, coutinuis, hyalinis, levibus, 15-20 «9-10; pa- 

 raphysibus filiformibus, hyalinis. 



Hah. in trunco putri V i t i s, Ithaca N. Y. Amer. bor. — Spo- 



