Pezizae 



globule, minutely warted at maturity, 15 19x9 IO/A; paraphyses sep- Peziza. 

 tate, tips slightly clavate. 



On the ground among grass, etc., also on scorched places. 



Readily distinguished by the bay or umber-brown disk, and the mi- 

 nutely- warted spores. Massee. 



North Carolina, Curtis; California, H. and M.; Minnesota, Johnson; 

 Nebraska, Clements; New York, Peck, Rep. 25. 



Alabama. On ground, Alabama Bull. No. 80, West Virginia, New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania. On ground. Frequent. July to October. Mc- 

 Ilvaine. 



Esculent. Cordier. 



P. badia is frequent on bare ground, along wood roads, etc. In the 

 West Virginia mountains it occurs where there have been brush fires. 

 It is a meaty plant, without much flavor. It must be cut fine and slowly 

 cooked if stewed, or can be quickly fried in a hot buttered pan. It has 

 more flavor fried crisp than stewed. 



P. COClllea'ta spiral. Sessile, cespitose, variously contorted and 

 plicate, fleshy, brittle, disk umber-brown, externally paler and pruinose, 

 sometimes altogether paler and leather-color or pale dingy-ochraceous, 

 2-3.2 in. diameter; when solitary or almost so, at first globose, then 

 expanding with the margin involute, finally spreading and irregularly 

 plicate; excipulum spongy and cavernous, due to the loose weft formed 

 by interlacing, hyaline, thin-walled, flaccid, septate hyphae, cortex com- 

 pact, running out into irregular groups of cells that form the scurfy ex- 

 terior; asci cylindrical, apex slightly truncate, 8-spored. Spores ob- 

 liquely i-seriate, hyaline, continuous, smooth, usually 2-guttulate, 

 16-18x7-8/4; paraphyses slender, septate; tip slightly clavate, often 

 curved and sometimes branched. 



The entire substance is brittle and rather watery, and usually assumes 

 a yellowish tint when bruised. Smell and taste almost none. 



Sometimes the ascophores are closely crowded, hence irregular and 

 much contorted, and resembling a foliaceous Tremella or a small speci- 

 men of Sparassis crispa. Massee. 



New York. Ground in woods. Helderberg mountains and Green- 

 bush. June. Peck, Rep. 23; Alabama, Peters, Ala. Bull. No. 80; 

 North Carolina, Curtis; Massachusetts, Frost; Ohio, Lloyd, Rep. 4. 



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