46 The North American Cup-Fungi 



4. Sphaerospora brunnea (Alb. & Schw.) Massee, Brit. Fungus- 



Fl. 4:295. 1895. 



Peziza hrtinnea Alb. & Schw. Consp. Fung. 317. 1805. 



?Peziza schizospora Phill. Grevillea 3: 31. Hyponym. 1874. 



?Peziza sphaeroplea Berk. & Curt.; Cooke, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 2: 



289. 1874. 

 Peziza confjisa Cooke, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 2: 291. 1875. 

 Lachnea confnsa Phill. Grevillea 18: 83. 1889. 

 Sphaerospora confusa Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 190. 1889. 

 ?BarIaea schizospora Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 116. 1889. 

 Scutellinia brunnea Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 869. 1891. 

 Ciliaria confusa Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 62. 1907. 

 Sphaerosporula confusa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 3^: 530. 1898. 



Apothecia gregarious or more often densely crowded, forming 

 congested masses several cm. in diameter, at first subglobose, 

 expanding and becoming scutellate or discoid, reaching a diameter 

 of 5-6 mm., externally brownish, clothed with short hairs; 

 hymenium plane or slightly concave, pale- to dark-brown; the 

 excipular cells irregularly polygonal, more or less elongated 

 near the margin, pale-brown, often reaching a diameter of 

 25-30 )u; hairs scarcely projecting above the margin of the 

 apothecium, rigid, rather sharp-pointed, subhyaline or pale- 

 brown, 1-4-septate, reaching an extreme length of 200 /x and a 

 diameter of 6-8 n, the young hairs often very irregularly crooked 

 or bent; asci cylindric or subcylindric above with a long slender 

 stem-like base, reaching a length of 160-200 /x and a diameter 

 of 20 yu; spores 1-seriate, containing one large oil-drop, hyaline, 

 smooth or very minutely roughened, reaching a diameter of 

 15-18 /x; paraphyses clavate, reaching a diameter of 6-7 jx at 

 their apices, filled with brown granules. 



On burnt ground and charcoal beds. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Massachusetts to Iowa and Alabama; also in 

 Europe. 



Illustrations: Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 379; Cooke, Mycographia 

 pi. {20, f. 80?); 32, f. 124; Alb. «& Schw. Consp. Fung. pi. 9, f. 8. 



5. Sphaerospora hinnulea (Berk. »S: Br.) Massee, Brit. Fungus- 



Fl. 4:294. 1895. 



Peziza hinnulea Berk. & Br. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. IV. 7: 433. 1873. 

 Peziza scutelloides Ellis, Bull. Torrey Club 9: 18. 1882. 

 Lachnea hinnulea Phill. Brit. Discom. 219. 1887. 

 Barlaea hinnulea Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 117. 1889. 

 Sphaerospora scutelloides Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 188. 1889. 

 Sphaerosporula scutelloides Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 3'*: 530. 1898. 



