Pezizee 



The cups are about two inches broad. The species is related to P. 

 onotica. Peck, 26th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Minnesota, Johnson; Mt. Gretna, Pa. On ground in mixed woods, 

 gravelly ground. September to October. Mcllvaine. 



Many specimens were found scattered and in patches, and were eaten. 

 They were of slight flavor but good. 



P. auran'tia Pers. (Plate CXXXVI, fig. 3, p. 508.) Sessile or 

 protracted into a very short stem-like base, cespitose and irregular, or 

 growing singly and then circular in outline and regular, becoming 

 almost plane; thin, brittle, disk clear, deep orange or sometimes orange- 

 red, externally much paler, or sometimes almost white, with a pink 

 tinge, delicately tomentose, due to the presence of short, stout, blunt, 

 i-2-septate hyaline hairs; varying from ^2-3. 2 in. broad. Spores 15- 



On the ground, often near stumps or among chips. 



Sometimes crowded, large, with the margin raised and very much 

 waved and more or less incised, at others scattered, smaller, almost or 

 quite even and finally spread flat on the ground. Easily recognized by 

 the large size, bright orange disk, pale, downy exterior, and the broadly 

 elliptical spores covered with a delicate net-work of raised lines at 

 maturity. Massee. 



Massachusetts, Frost; Rhode Island, Bennett; Minnesota, Johnson; 

 California, H. and M . ; Alabama, Peters; New York, October, Peck, 

 23, 24 Rep.; Indiana, Richmond, November, Dr. J. R. Weist; West 

 Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. On ground. September to Octo- 

 ber. Mcllvaine. 



Esculent. Cordier. 



At Mt. Gretna, Pa., patches of it twenty feet long, made the ground 

 along a road on the margin of a woods golden with its clusters. The 

 plants grew from sand mixed with leaf-mold. I have eaten it for fifteen 

 years. Fair flavor. 



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Cupulares. Sub sessile, etc. 



P. repan'da Wahlenb. bent backward. Clustered or scattered, sub- 

 sessile, contracted into a short, stout, stem-like base, which is often 

 rooting; saucer-shaped, then quite expanded and the margin more or 



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