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Chlorosplenium aeruginosum (Oeder) Tul. Select. Fung. Carp. 

 3:187. 1865. 



Elvela aeruginosa Oeder Fl. Dan. 3' J : 7. pi. 534. f . 2. 

 1770. 



Mycelium coloring the substratum green. Apothecia in 

 groups, 6 mm.- 1 cm. broad, interior of the cup pale green or 

 creamy, exterior verdigris-green ; stipitate, somewhat leathery. 

 Stipe 0.5-1 cm. long, usually slender. Hymenium and hypothe- 

 cium almost colorless, central part of the same color, exterior 

 portion dark green. Paraphyses fhliform, sometimes branched. 

 Asci cylindrico-clavate. Spores fusiform, 9-14 mic. long and 

 3-4 mic. broad, guttulate. 



Growing on rotting wood. 



Coll. Freda M. Bachman, Oct. 31, 1907. Bruce Fink, May 

 2, 1908. Grace M. Kalter, Bruce Fink, Aug. 11, 1908. 



Genus VI. Sclerotinia Fuck. Symb. Mycol. 330. 1869. 

 Type species, Sclerotinia libertiana Fuck. 



Apothecia fleshy-waxy, stipitate, cup-shaped or funnel 

 shaped, later more or less expanded arising from sclerotia, large 

 or small, usually glabrous. Stipe long, slender, more or less 

 immersed. Paraphyses filiform. Asci cylindrical. Spores 8, 

 oblong elliptic, ovate or elliptic, hyaline guttulate. 



Growing on the ground in the spring. 



-^-Sclerotinia tuber osa (Hedw.) Fuck. Symb. Mycol. 331. 1869. 

 Octospora tuberosa Hedw. Desc. Muse. Frond. 1 : 33. 

 pi. 10. 1787. 



Apothecia springing from sclerotia, 2-3.5 cm - broad, stipi- 

 tate, interior of the cup light to dark brown and becoming some- 

 what wrinkled, exterior of the same color. Stipe 2-4 cm. long, 

 slender, often flexuous. Hymenium brownish, hypothecium very 

 dark brown, outer cells of the cup lighter brown. Paraphyses 

 filiform. Asci cylindrical. Spores uniseriate, usually elliptic, 

 sometimes oblong-elliptic, hyaline, smooth, 12 mic. long and 6 

 mic. wide. 



Growing on earth in the spring in woods. Very common. 



