114 THE WEST \'IRGINIA FLORA 



above so as to make a marginal fringe of pale yellow, rough- 

 ish straight hairs. Asci clavate-cylindrical, sessile, curved, 

 50 to 60 X 5 to 6 /x. Paraphyses filiform, hardly thickened 

 above, with a series of orange-colored, globose nuclei. Spo- 

 ridia biseriate, oblong, hyaline, obtuse, tmiseptate, but not 

 constricted, 8 to 10 x 2.5 to 3 /j.. The outside of the asco- 

 mata is slightly hairy so that the species might be referred 

 to Solenpedsa if thai is really worthy of generic distinction. 



DERMATELLA Karst. 



D. viTicoLA E. & E., Proc. Phil. Acad., 352 (1894). 



Type habitat: On dead shoots of Vitis (cult.) Nov. 1893 

 {Nuttall, discov. 1337, 295). 



Sessile, convex-discoid and pale when moist, concave and 

 flesh-color when dry, and then scarcely projecting above the 

 surface of the bark. .50 to .75 mm. diameter. Asci clavate- 

 cylindrical, about 70 X 12 /i, with filiform paraphyses, 8- 

 spored, sub-sessile. Sporidia sub-biseriate, oblong elliptical, 

 hyaline, I to 3-septate (3 to 4-nucleate at first), 15 to 18 x 6 

 to 6.5 fi.. 



BELONIDIUM Mont. 

 B. aurelia (Pers.) DeNot. 



Pesiza aurelia, Pers. On a dead leaf in rotton log, ^lonon- 

 galia Co., at Little Falls (MillspMigh). 



ERINELLA Sacc. 



E. MiNiopsis (Ell.) Sacc. 



On wet rotten wood. May, 1893 (Nuttall, 934). 



E. sp. 



On Acer spicatum {Sheldon, 2560). 



ASCOBOLACEAE. 



ASCOBOLUS, Pers. 

 A. furfuraceus Pers. 



On old dung of cow, June 8, 1893 {Nuttall, 974). 

 A. carbonarius Karst. 



On bare spots where logs were burned by forest fire the 

 previous winter, associated with Geopyxis carbonaria. It 

 appears that only the prolonged burning of large logs makes 

 proper habitat for this species, as it does not grow where 

 the fire was light. May 20, 1893 {Nuttall, 926). 



ASCOPHANUS Bond. 



A. GRANULIFORMTS (Cr.) Boud. ? 



On dung of cow, Dec, 1893 {Nuttall, 1340, 298). 



