Pezizas 



Peziza. This species is quite insipid and somewhat leathery, but Mr. Berke- 

 ley has seen it offered for sale under the name of Morell. Badham. 

 Esculent. Cordicr, Cooke. 



P. lepori'na Batsch. lepus, a hare. Cup 1-3 in. high, 1-3 in. 

 broad, gregarious, often cespitose; margin involute, divided to the base 

 on one side; disk even or rarely wrinkled, a shade darker than the ex- 

 terior; paraphyses slender, hardly thickened at the summits, but al- 

 most invariably crooked. This fine species grows as large as O. onotica 

 at times, but is not so brightly colored, being throughout of a sober 

 tan-color, resembling common wash leather used for cleaning plate. 

 Phillips. 



Asci cylindrical, 8-spored. Spores obliquely uniseriate, hyaline, 

 smooth, continuous, 1-2 guttulate, elliptical, 12-15x7-8^; paraphyses 

 filiform, septate, apex slightly swollen, and usually strongly curved. 



On the ground in woods, among leaves, etc. Massee. 



California, edible, H. and M. 



Esculent. Cordicr. 



P. Oliotica Pers. Very variable in form, usually elongated on one 

 side and ear-shaped, but sometimes almost equal-sided and entire, 13 

 in. high, up to 2 in. wide, becoming narrowed to a more or less 

 wrinkled, short stem-like base; disk pale orange, usually with a rosy 

 tinge, externally pale tawny-orange. Asci elongated, narrowly cylin- 

 drical, 8-spored. Spores obliquely i-seriate, hyaline, smooth, colorless, 

 ends obtuse, i-2-guttulate, 14-15x8-9^; paraphyses straight, septate, 

 apex clavate. 



On the ground in woods, among leaves, etc. Massee. 



North Carolina, Curtis; Iowa, Fitzpatrick (LI. R. 4); New York, 

 Peck, Rep. 28. 



Esculent. Cordier. 



P. unici'sa Pk. implying one incision. Clip large, thin, split on 

 one side to the base, sessile or with a short stem, externally wrinkled, 

 minutely pulverulent under a lens, yellow, within pale-yellow slightly 

 tinged with pink. Spores elliptical, usually containing two nuclei, 12- 



iSM- 



Ground in woods Croghan. September. 



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