ELTELLACEI. 



707 



2124. Feziza compressa. A. & S. " Compressed Peziza." 



Sessile, innate, tliin, blackisli ; disc black, when dry com- 

 pressed, concliiform. — Fr. S.M. ii. p. 152. A. 4' S.j^. 340. F/ig. 

 Fl.Y.p.'207. Durella commutata, Fckl. Sym. Myc. p. 280. Tul. 

 Carp. iii. t. -22,/. 8-14. 



On hard wood. Perennial. Appin. [United States.] 



Minute, scattered or crowded, black, opaque, externally often brownish, 

 subrotund, elliptic, or angular; disc homogenouSj black, 



Sporidia cylindrical, curved, obtuse, triseptate. This seems more closely 

 allied to Patellaria than to Peziza. The triseptate sporidia are those of a 

 Patellaria. 



2125. Peziza flexella. Fr. " Pine-wood Peziza." 



Immersed, compressed, minute, concave, variously flexuose, 

 black.— i^r.>S'.J/.ii.29. 152. Eng.Fl. Y.p.207. 



On dead wood, especially pine. Perennial. Appin. 



[Low. Carolina.] 

 Smaller than P. compressa, purer black. — M.J.B. 



Gen. 297. 



HELOTIUM, Fr. 



Fig. 332. 



Disc always, op en, at first puncti- 

 form, then dilated, convex or con- 

 cave, naked. Excipulum waxy, free, 

 marginate, externally naked. — Berk. 

 Outl.p. 371. 



Disc convex 

 Disc concave 



Pelastea. 

 Cal'/cella. 

 {Fig. 332.) 



Sub-Gen. 1. Pelastea, Fr. 



Disc convex. Receptacle hollow beneath, or flattened. — 

 Berk. Outl.p. 371, 



2126. 



Helotium fibulifoime. Fr. " Staff-lil^e Helotium." 



Firm, head convex, yellow, black-brown beneath, as well as 

 the short, thick, subvillose stem. — i^r. >S'. J/, ii. p. 155. Eng. Fl. 

 Y.p. 207. Bolt.t. 176. 



On elm. 



