Oct. 1902] 
The Genus Angelina 
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in every respect with those of Ascobolns conglomeratus. In 
my own recent collections all the above variations in the color 
of the margin are shown in a single patch. In the fresh speci¬ 
mens the substance is rather a fleshy-waxy, not at all gelatinous. 
The disk is widely exposed, and the asci do not project above 
the hymenium. It is rather difficult to see how the disk could 
become black-punctate from projecting asci when both they 
and the spores are hyaline. A section shows that the para- 
physes cohere above the asci forming an epithecium. 
On the basis of the above characters I think the genus 
Angelina should be located in the Pezizineae, family Cenan- 
giaceae, where its spore characters place it near Cenangella. 
I add a description and synonymy: 
Angelina Fr., Summa Veg. Scand. p. 358. 1849. 
A genus of the Cenangiaceae. Ascomata erumpent-superficial, 
sessile, without a stroma; when fresh fleshy-waxy, disk exposed, elon¬ 
gated, curved or sinuous, when dry rather horny, inrolled in an hys- 
teriiform manner. Asci 8-spored. Spores 1-septate, hyaline. Para- 
physes slender, flexuous. 
Angelina rufescens (Schw.) Duby, Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. nat. 
Gen. 16 :51. 1861. 
Hysterium rufescens Schw., Syn. Fung. Car. no. 252. p. 50. 1822. 
Ascobulus conglomeratus Schw., Syn. Fung. Am. no. 960. p. 178. 
1831. 
Angelina conglomerata (Schw.) Fr., Summa Veg. Scand. p. 858. 
1849. 
Exsic.: Ellis, N. A. F. no. 466. 
Ascomata usually densely gregarious, erumpent-superficial, sessile, 
when fresh elliptical or elongated and variously curved and sinuous, 
disk widely exposed, slate-gray, externally brown and grumous, mar¬ 
gin paler, rather thick, about .75 mm. wide, 1-3 mm. long; when dry 
hysteriiform, disk and exterior reddish-brown, the margin usually paler 
or yellowish. Excipulum minutely parenchymatous, brown. Asci con¬ 
spicuously narrowed below to a slender pedicel the ascigerous portion 
narrowly elliptical or lanceolate, apex rounded, not blue with iodine, 
90-110x4-8 [j„ Spores 8, biseriate in the upper part of the ascus, fusoid- 
oblong or clavate-oblong, ends rounded, hyalin'e, smooth, for a long 
time continuous, finally 1-s'eptate, not constricted, 8-15x3-4 Para- 
physes very slender, branched, curved and flexuous, slightly thickened 
at the apices which cohere to form the epithecium. 
On much decayed wood, especially on the tops of rotten oak and 
chestnut stumps. Spring and Autumn. 
New England (Curtis) ; New York (various collectors) ; 
New Jersey (Ellis) ; Pennsylvania (Schweinitz) ; N. Carolina 
(Curtis and Schweinitz) ; S. Carolina (Ravenel). 
Excluded species. Angelina nigro-cinnabarina (Schw.) B. 
& C., Jour. Linn. Soc. 10:373, and A. lepieurii Mont., Syll. p. 
188, also Jour. Linn. Soc. 10:372, belong to the genus Trybli- 
diella. 
Botanical Laboratory, Cornell University. 
