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Rh WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

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T. suBicuLATA (Schw.) Sacc. On wet sticks, June 15 and Oct. 25, 1893. 10 X 3 ц (Nuttall, 992).

Spores large.

LACHNELLA Fr. L. ViRGiNiCA E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad. 349 (1894). Type habitat : On decaying wood of Magnolia Fraseri, Feb., 1894 (Nuttall, discov. 1410, 380). Gregarious, sessile, .75 to 1.2 mm. diameter. Disk pallid, concave, nearly closed when dry, margin fringed with brown septate hairs, 100 to 125 x 3 ц, outside clothed with shorter reddish-brown hairs. Asci about 50 x 5 /1, clavate-sylindrical, short stipitate, paraphysate, 8-spored. Sporidia sub-biscriate, oblong, 6 to 8 x 1.5 to 2.5 ц. TRICHOPEZIZA Fuckel. sp. Torn end of firm dead tree, Short Creek, alt. 1.800 ft. Dec. 16, 1893 (Nuttall, 1326). T. albo-lutea (Pers.) Sacc. ? On rotten log, Short Creek, June 18, 1893, stipitate (Nuttall, 1013). T. capitata (Peck.) Sacc. On leaves Quercus palustris on ground in woods, alt. 2,000 ft., June 18, 1893. At Rupert's, July 26, 1894 (Nuttall, IOIl). T.

DASYSCYPHA Fr. D. virgiNea (Batsch) Fckl. On dead sticks on wet cliff, and on wet dead wood of Julians cinerea, June 12, 1893 (Nuttall, 841). D. luteola (Cun.) Sacc. On a stick (Hartley, 2974). D. Ellisiana (Rehm.) Sacc. On Pinus rigida, top of Cavendish cliff, April 8, 1894 (Nuttall, 1447). HELOTIELLA Sacc. H. Nuttallii E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad!. 351 (1894). Type habitat : On wet shady side of rotten log, March 15, 1894 (Nuttall, discov. 1425, 397). Ascomata gregarious, sessile, flat-hemispherical, .5 to 1 mm. diameter, cup-shaped when fresh, contracted and subspherical when dry with only a small round apical opening, orange color throughout, disk watery-orange, outside and fringed margin paler. Substance fibrous, the fibers prolonged