BULLETIN 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. | 
Note on Tubercularia pezizoidea Schwein. 
By HERMANN SCHRENK, 
(PLATE 218.) 
In the « Synopsis Fungorum” (1831)! appeared the de- 
scription of a fungus, collected on poplar ‘logs in New York by 
Dr. Torrey, to which Schweinitz gave the name Tudercularia 
pezizoidea. The description was as follows: “T. Sporidochiis, 
fasciculatim confluentibus, maximis, pezizoideis, undulato-plicatis, 
€x-epidermide prorumpentibus et ad uncialem longitudinem ir- 
regulariter confluentibus, pede crasso suffultis, substantia indurato- 
cornea, strato sporidifero compacto incarnato purpureo, subnitente, 
sed superficie subpruinosa. Intus albescunt et «tate subpulveru- 
lenta evadunt sporidochia. Talis cupula non confluens diame- 
trum plus quam bilinearam habet et Pezizam margine obtuso, 
undulato plicato disco refert.”’ 
This fungus, apparently common in the northern United States, 
Was reported by Hitchcock? as Zudercularia pezizoidea Schw. in 
1829, previous to the publication of the name by Schweinitz, 
: Hitchcock probably having seen some of the Schweinitz speci- 
~ Mmens. Somewhat later Sprague’, in cataloging this form from 
1. L. D. de Schweinitz—Synopsis Fungorum in America Boreali media degentium. 
Communicated to Am. Phil. Soc. Philadelphia, 15 Ap. 1831. 
2. £. Hitchcock—Catalogue of Plants growing within 50 miles of Amherst, Mass. 
64. 1829, 
3 CS. Sprague—Bost, Soc. Nat. Hist. 6: 319. 1858. 
