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I. Caliciopsis Peck, Ann. Rept. N. Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist. 33: 



32. 1880 



Hypsotheca Ellis and Everhart, Jour. Mycol. 1 : 128. 1885. 

 Type species, Caliciopsis pinca Peck. 



Stromata pulvinate, rounded to elongated," scattered or ar- 

 ranged in rather definite rows, occasionally confluent, formed 

 within the host tissue but soon erumpent, bearing a cespitose 

 cluster of perithecia and pyenidia ; peritheciuro black, coriaceous 

 to carbonaceous, stalked, not proliferating; the ascigerous swell- 

 ing terminal to a sub-median but not basal, when sub-apical then 

 terminated by a tapering beak, urceolate to sub-cylindrical ; apex 

 of perithecium at first closed, later a definite opening formed by 

 fimbriate-lacefationi ; asci ovate to clavate, long-stalked, thin- 

 walled, evanescent, 8-spored, aparaphysate ; ascospores varying 

 from ellipsoidal or sub-fusiform -to globose, crowded, smooth, 

 brown, unicellular, thin-walled; pyenidia borne on the stroma 

 with the perithecia, cespitose, sessile, globose to sub-globose, 

 black, papillate, apically ostiolate ; pyenospores hvaline or in mass 

 slightly yellowish, minute, unicellular, allantoicL 



This genus is very cosely related to Sorica. Dehiscence of 

 the perithecium takes place in exactly >the same manner in the 

 two genera, and perithecia, pyenidia, asci, and spores are very 

 similar in the two cases. The presence in Sorica of the phenom- 

 enon of perithecial proliferation is the only essential difference. 



Peck (37) founded the genus on C. p'mea, and states that the 

 species is a discomycete and should be placed near Cenangium. 

 He points out that, although in external appearance it resembles 

 certain species of Calicium, it is wholly destitute of a thalline 

 crust and gonidial cells, and must be regarded as one of the true 

 fungi. 



Ellis (10) in founding Hypsotheca states that the genus is 

 clearly closely related to Caliciopsis, but, apparently influenced 

 by Peck's statement that Caliciopsis is a discomycete, he fails to 

 include it in North American Pyrenomycetes (Ellis 11). He 

 places Hypsotheca in the Ceratostomeae on account of the beaked 

 nature of" the perithecium, and includes three species, H. cali- 

 cioides, H. sub cortic alls, and H. thujina. 



Rehm (41) recognizes the identity of Hypsotheca and Call- 



