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Sarcoscypha nine species, among them being the well-known 8. 

 coccinea, found on sticks in damp woods in both Europe and North 

 America, and the much more rare S. jirofracta. 



Sarcoscypha protracta. — Sarcoscyj)ha jirotracta Fr. (Fig. 115), 

 according to Saccardo,^ has various synonyms : Microstoma hiemale 

 Milde ; Peziza mirabilis Borsz., under which name it is illustrated 

 in M. C. Cooke's Mycographia ; Sclerotinia baccata Fuck, (the root- 

 ing base is not a sclerotium, hence the generic name Sclerotinia was 

 a misnomer) ; and Anthojjeziza Winteri Wettst., under which name 

 it is illustrated in Kerner von Marilaun's Natural History of Plants. 

 There is no description or illustration of the fungus in Boudier's 

 I cones Fung arum. 



Sarcoscypha protracta occurs in both Europe and North America, 

 and appears to be a northern species. In Europe it has been found 

 in Scandinavia, Finland, Germany, and Austria, ^ and it was observed 

 by the late Professor J. H. W. Trail ^ in the month of May growing 

 in clusters of two to six fruit-bodies among grass on the banks of 

 the Dee near Ballater in Scotland. In Canada it has been found by 

 myseK in Manitoba and by Dr. E. H. Moss * in Alberta. Miss Hone ^ 

 states that S. protracta is found in the State of Minnesota ; but, since 

 her specimens were sohtary and had no guttulae in their spores, 

 the identification seems doubtful. My own specimens agree well 

 with the descriptions given by Fries, Rehm, and other European 

 mycologists. 



Karsten,<5 in Finland, found fruit-bodies of Sarcoscypha protracta 

 on Alder branches {Alnus incana) buried in the ground. According 

 to Rehm,^ the asci are 250-550 [o. long and 18-24 [j. wide ; and in 



1 P. A. Saccardo, SyJloge Fungorum, Vol. VIII, 1889, p. 155. 



2 For literature vide H. Rehm in Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutsch- 

 land, Oesterreich und der Schu-eiz, Die Pilze, Vol. Ill, 1896, pp. 1072-1073. 



3 Vide W. Phillips, " British Discomycetes," Grevillea, Vol. XVIII, 1889-90, 

 p. 83. 



^ I have seen Dr. Moss's specimens, collected 800 miles west of Winnipeg, and they 

 exactly resemble those found by myself. 



5 Daisy S. Hone, " The Pezizales, Phacidiales and Tuberales of Minnesota," 

 Minnesota Botanical Studies, Vol. IV, 1909, pp. 96-97. 



^ P. A. Karsten, Mycologia Fennica, Helsingfors, Vol. I, 1871, p. 44. I suspect 

 that the buried branches (ramulos) were in reality roots (f/. my own Fig. 116). 



' H. Rehm, " Hysteriaceen und Discomyceten," in Rabenhorsfs Kryptogamen- 

 Flora, 2 Aufl., Bd. I, Abt. Ill, 1896, p. 1073. 



