674 ELVELLACET. 



Sessile, f in. broad, depressed, attached to tlie soil by villous down ; mar- 

 ^n free, clothed with delicate, obtuse, articulate hairs; hymenium orange; 

 sporidia (•OOOy-'OOOZ in.) •022--0177 m.m. long. -j5. <{; £r. 



Sect. 4. Humaria — small, somewhat fleshy, margin snb- 



flocculose. 



1994. Feziza xutilans. Fr. " Splendid Peziza." 



Snb-sessile, middle-sized, campanulate, then expanded, ex- 

 ternally finely pubescent, pallid ; disc orange red; sporidia at 

 length echinnlate. — Fr. S.M.ii.p. 68. Bay. Syn.p. 19, 7^o. 14. 

 Karst. exs. no. 527. Karst. Mon. Fez. p. 116. Fckl. exs. no. 1222. 

 Eng. Fl. Y.p. 190. Peziza huinosa, B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 768, 

 ^.3,/. 13, no. 1154. Berh. Eng. Fl. v. p. 191. Sow. t. 369,/: 2. 

 Bolt. ^. 101,/. 1. Purt. t.26. P. leucoloma, Sturm. t.\l . 



On the ground. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Sporidia (-OOOg-'OOl in.) •022--025 m.m. long (•0004--0005 in.) •01--0125 m. 

 m. broad when perfectly developed, strongly echinulate with one or more 

 nuclei. Cups nearly ^ in. broad, at first round, even, disciform, at length 

 somewhat lobed and crisped, thick and fleshy, in vertical section o^conic ; 

 margin pale, but not involute ; disc of a full orange, externally paler, very 

 minutely pulverulent. Sporidia rough with granules, •021-"027 X "OlS-'OlG 

 m.m. — Nyl. Karst. 



1993. Feziza xnelaloma. A. <|' S. " Black-edged Peziza." 



Sessile, crowded, concave, then nearly plane, dingy-orange, 

 marsfin furnished with very delicate black hairs ; spores ellip- 

 soidT— ^. ^' S. t. 2,/. 5. Fr. S.M. ilp. 69. Eng. Fl. v. p. 190. 

 Ann. N.H. no. 88. Karst. exs. no. 550. Karst. Mon. Fez. p. 123. 

 Eahh.F.E. no. 723. FcJd. exs. no. 1221. Pyronema melalomum. 

 Fckl. Sym. Myc. p. 319. 



On charcoal. [Up. Carolina.] 



Paraphyses numerous, thickened at their apices. 

 Sporidia ellipsoid, •014--018 X 'OOS-'OOQ m.m.— Nyl. 

 Sporidia elhpsoid, •015--018 X -OOZ.-OOe m.m.— ^ars^ 



1936. Feziza erecta. Sow. " Cylindrical Peziza." 



Sessile, crowded, subcylindrical, smooth, yellowish, at length 

 dilated, mouth erect, subciliate. — Fr. S.M. \\.p. 69. Sow. t. 369, 

 /. 10, 11. Eng.Fl.Y.p.ldA. 



On shaded ground. 



Cup 2 lines high, oblong and upright, but sometimes short and clumsy, 

 often spreading, sometimes destitute of hairs, sometimes ciliated, sometimes 

 furnished with both hairs and cilia, varying from deep red to greenish yellow 

 and pale yellow. — Sou-erhy. 



