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 24 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 



cinereous, crustaceous lichen bearing numerous small apothecia. 

 It is distinguished from S. subporiaeformis by larger cups and 

 more globose spores. I failed to study the authentic specimens 

 of Peziza Daedalea Schw. and Peziza pruinata Schw. when there 

 was an opportunity. 



Specimens examined: 

 Exsiccati: Ell. & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 2317; Jaap, Fungi Sel. 



Exs., 65; Ravenel, Fungi Car. 1: 38, under the name Peziza 



pruinata Schw.; Ravenel, Fungi Car. 1: 37, under the name 



Peziza Daedalea Schw. 

 Sweden: Femsjo, L. Romell. 



Germany: Brandenburg, in Jaap, Fungi Sel. Exs., 65. 

 France: Aveyron, A. Galzin, 1784, comm. by H. Bourdot, 4747. 

 New Jersey: Newfield, J. B. Ellis, in Ell. & Ev., N. Am. Fungi, 



2317. 

 Maryland: Takoma Park, C. L. Shear, 1087. 

 North Carolina: Chapel Hill, W. C. Coker, 4686 (in Mo. Bot. 



Card. Herb., 57331). 

 South Carolina: H. W. Ravenel, in Ravenel, Fungi Car. 1: 



37, 38. 

 Alabama: Auburn, F. S. Earle (in N. Y. Bot. Gard. Herb., and 



Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 57330). 

 Minnesota: Vermilion Lake, E. W. D. Holway (in U. S. Dept. 



Agr. Herb., Burt Herb., and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 4800), 



and J. C. Arthur, L. H. Bailey & E. W. D. Holway, 2648 (in 



Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb., 4599). 



10. S. subporiaeformis Burt, n. sp. 



Type: in Farlow Herb, and Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb. 



Fructifications spherical, 120-150 (x in diameter, 4-5 to a mm., 

 nearly buried in the pale neutral gray subiculum, with the white 

 mouths and adjacent portion of the wall protruding; mouth about 

 60-80 [J. in diameter; hjTuenium black as seen from above, the 

 subhymenium opaque, nearly black; basidia simple, pyriform, 

 9-12 X 5-6 (x; spores hyaUne, even, flattened on one side, 5-6 

 X 3 tx. 



Fructifications in small patches 4x3 cm., 3x2 cm., and 

 3 X 13^ cm. in the three specimens collected. 



