9 o PEZIZACEAE— HELVELLACEAE 



1. Spores smooth 



a. Cup dark or black, more or less strigose at base 



Pseudoplectania R. 1039, 8: 165 



b. Cup bright-colored, hairy or setose 



Sphaerospora R. 1037, 8: 188 



2. Spores warted or reticulate ; cups white-hairy 



Pyronemella R. 1038, 8: 194 



II. Spores elliptic to fusoid 



1. Spores rostrate at base Puttemansia 18:98 



2. Spores muticate 



a. Apothecia sunken in the ground, opening by lobes 



Sepultaria R. 1075, 8:166 



b. Apothecia superficial 



(1) Apothecia sessile 



(a) Apothecia dark-hairy or ciliate 

 x. Apothecia uniformly dark-hairy 



Pelodiscus 16:1147, 18:35 

 y. Apothecia also with long cilia at the margin 



(x) Paraphyses clavulate, blunt Scutellinia R. 1042, 8: 173 



(Lachnea) 

 (y) Paraphyses equal, brown, pointed 



Desmazierella R. 1041, 8:386 



(b) Apothecia bright-hairy or ciliate 

 x. Apothecia uniformly bright-hairy 



*Leucopezis 

 y. Apothecia with marginal cilia also 



Neottiopezis 8: 190, R. 1068 



(2) Apothecia stalked 



(a) Apothecia dark or black 



x. Stalk long, slender, mealy Macropodia R. 984, 8:158 



y. Stalk short, thick with brown hairs and rhizoids 



Plectania 8: 163, R. 1070 



(b) Apothecia and hairs bright-colored 



Sarcoscypha R. 1070, 8: 153 



(inch Trichoscypha 8: 160, Pilo- 

 cratera 18:31) 



Phaeosporae 

 Spores hyaline, i-celled, globose to fusoid 



I. Apothecia with a cylindric verrucose stalk Phaeomacropus 16: 740 



II. Apothecia sessile *Trichaleuris 18:89 



Family 47. HELVELLACEAE 



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Apothecia typically terrestrial, and stalked, sometimes sessile, club-shaped, conical 

 or saddle-shaped, rarely flat, mostly smooth, fleshy, cartilaginous or rarely gelatinous ; 

 usually large forms. 



