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stipe, usually bright-colored and small. Paraphyses slender, fili- 

 form, slightly wider at the ends. Asci cylindrical or somewhat 

 cylindrico-clavate. Spores 8, ovoid, oblong or somewhat rounded, 

 hyaline. 



Growing on decorticate wood and herbaceous stems. 



The genus differs from Helotium in the more slender stipe, 

 in the apothecia being urceolate and more or less colored at first. 



Phialca scutula (Pers.) Gill. Les Disco, de Fr. 108. 1879. 

 Peziza scutula Pers. Mycol. Eur. 1 : 284. 1882. 



Apothecia scattered, 2-3 mm. broad, cup-shaped becoming 

 almost plane, stipitate, interior pale yellow, exterior same color. 

 Stipe 5-8 mm. long, slender. Hymenium and hypothecium pale 

 or colorless. Paraphyses filiform, slightly wider at the ends. 

 Asci cylindrico-clavate. Spores pseudo-septate, guttulate, 3 or 

 4 oil globules, fusiform or oblong-elliptic, 16-18 mic. long and 

 3-5 mic. wide. 



Growing on old stems in damp places. 



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

 4, 1908. 



Genus III. Lachnella Fr. Sum. Veg. Scand. 365. 1849. 



Type Species, Lachnella flammea (Alb. and Schw.) Fr. 



Mycelium within the sub-stratum. Apothecia fleshy-waxy, 

 firm, sessile, at first closed and globose, then expanded, exterior 

 pilose or villous, small. Hairs of the cup hyaline or colored. 

 Paraphyses filiform or needle-like usually exceeding the asci in 

 length. Asci cylindrico-clavate or clavate. Spores 8, simple, 

 hyaline, oblong, oblong-elliptic or -ovoid. 



Growing on decaying wood, stems, or leaves. 



A-Lachnclla papillaris (Bull.) Phil. Brit. Disco. 257. 1887. 



Peziza papillaris Bull. Hist. Champ. Fr. pi. 467, f. 1. 

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 Apothecia caespitose or scattered, 1-2 mm. broad, cup- 

 shaped becoming nearly plane but closed when dry, sessile, in- 

 terior pallid, exterior of the same color but covered with brown, 

 septate, blunt hairs, having crystal granules on the ends. Hy- 



