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ELVELLACET. 



Gen. 298. 



PSILOPEZIA, Berk. 



Indeterminate, immargin ate, agglutinate ; hymenium always 

 exposed. — Bei^k. Outl.p. 373. 



The typical representative of this genus has only been found once. It re- 

 Bemhles a. Itkizi7ia jnore thsiu a Feziza, though at first included with the 

 latter, but it has not the peculiar roots of the former. The spores differ also 

 from those in PJdzina. 



2162. 



Psilopezia Babingtonii. 



Psilopezia." 



Berh. " Babington's 



Small, convex above, mouse brown, fixed by the margin ; be- 

 neath concave, pale watery-brown, slightly rugose, with obsolete 

 fibrils ; spores broadly ellij^tic ; paraphyses linear, clavate. — 

 Berk. Outl.j). 373. Peziza Babingtonii. Ann.N.H. no. 554. 



On rotten wood. Grace Dieu Wood, Leicestershire. 



_ Cup \ in. or more broad, contracting greatly in drying, irregular in out- 

 line, convex above, mouse brown, concave beneath, and slightly wrinkled, 

 pale watery brown, fixed by the borderj asci linear ; spores broadly elliptic j 

 paraphyses linear, their apices clavate. 



Gen. 299. 



PATELLARIA, Fr. 



Receptacle patell^eform, margined, 

 always open ; hymenium even, sub- 

 persistent, but dusty, from the break- 

 ing up of the asci ; asci fixed. — Berk. 

 Outl.p. 373. Fr. S.M. ii.p. 158. 



(Fig. 333.; 



Fig. 333. 



2163. 



Patellaria atzata. Fr. " Large Black Patellaria." 



Subcoriaceous, patellaeform, sessile, plane, black, margin 

 swollen ; disc subpruinose ; asci cylindrico-clavate ; sporidia 

 subclavate, 5-7 septate. — Fr. S.M. i\.p. 160. Eng. Fl. v. p. 208. 

 Hedw. t. 21, f. A. Nees.f. 265 B. Lecanidion atrum. Rabh. Hdbk^ 

 p. 342. Fckl. exs. no. 1118. 



On dead wood. [United States.] 



Sporidia (•0018-'0025 in.) ■045-'06 m.m. long; paraphyses clavate. — 

 C. E.B. 



Dr. Capron has a black Patellaria similar to, but smaller than P. atrata, 

 in which the sporidia are biseriate, broadly clavate, rounded at each end, 9 

 septate, with a nucleus in each cell, except the terminal, •0015-*0020 in. 

 long (Fig. 333.) 



