ELVELLACEI. 679 



Series 2. Laclmea, Fr. 



Veil distinct, decidedly villous, or pilose, persistent ; cup, in 

 consequence, bristly or liairy, always closed when young ; sub- 

 stance waxy, firm, rarely fleshy. — Berk. Outl.p. 367. 



Fleshy, or between fleshy and waxy . . , Sarcoscyphce. 



Waxy, dry, externally villous .... Dasyscyphce. 



Nestling on a dense mycelium .... Tapesia. 



Externally fibrose- striate, with adpressed hairs . Fibrina. 



Sect. 1. SarcoscyphcB — fleshy, or between fleshy & waxy. 



2012. Feziza coccinea. Jacrp " Carmine Peziza.'' 



Cup infundibuliform, externally, as well as the stem, whitish, 

 tomentose, with short, adpressed down; -disc carmine; sporidia 

 oblong. — Fr. S.M. \\.p. 79. Jacq. Autr. 1. 169. Eng. Fl. v. p. 192. 

 Bolt. t. 104:. FcJd. exs. no.l2l3. Biixb. iv.t. 29, f. 4. Nees. f. 

 288. Batt. t. 3,/. N.O. Ray. Syn. lii.p. 19. no. 15. Grev. 1. 161. 

 P. epidendra, Bull. t. 469. Sow. t. 13. P.2')ocul{formis, Iloffm. 

 Cr. t. 7, /. 5. Gonn. 8^ Rahh. iii. t. 4,/. 5. Plectania coccinea, FcJcl. 

 Sym.Myc.p. 324. 



On sticks. Spring. Local. [Up. Carolina.] 



Cup 1 in. or more broad, deep carmine within ; stem 5-I in. high. 

 Sporidia ellipsoid oblong, •028--038 X •011-'014 m.m.—Xyl. Karst, 

 Sporidia •012-'014 m.m. broad, and about twice as long. — G. ^R. 



2013. Peziza melastoma. Sow. " Black and red Peziza." 



Cup fleshy ; disc urceolate, black, externally brick-red floc- 

 culose ; stem short, rooting by means of thick black, strigose 

 down.— />. >S.J/. ii. p. 80. Soiv.t.U9. Eng.Fl.Y.p.l92. FcJcl. 

 exs. no. 1214, 1215. A. ^ S. t. l,f. 4. P. atro rufa. Grev. t. 315. 

 Plectania melastoma, Fckl. Sym. Myc.p. 324. 



On sticks lying on the ground. Rare. 



This species varies greatly as to degree of pubescence, being sometimes 

 almost naked, sometimes beset with down, or even bristly hairs; the base, 

 however, is always furnished with long, black, rooting, strigose filaments. — 

 Enrj.Fl. 



Asci very long, stipitate ; sporidia oblong, hyaline. — FcJd. 



2014. Peziza pygxnea. Fr. " Furze Peziza." 



Cup concave, at length plane, orange externally, as well as 

 the somewhat thickened stem, tomentose, pallid; sporidia small, 

 fusiform, without nuclei. — Fr. S.M. ii. p. 79. B. ^ Br. Ann. 

 N.H. f 1865;, no. 1066, 1. 15,/. 18, no. 1160*, t. 4,/. 22. 



