PSEUDOPLECTANIA 47 



Apothecia gregarious or scattered, never densely crowded, at 

 first subglobose, expanding and becoming scutellate to discoid, 

 reaching a diameter of 5 mm. to 1 cm., externally clothed with 

 rigid hairs which project above the margin, giving it a dark- 

 brown color; hymenium slightly concave or plane, reddish-brown ; 

 the excipular cells irregularly polygonal, reaching a diameter of 

 30-35 n, the cell walls pale-brown; hairs straight or irregularly 

 bent, rather sharp-pointed or obtuse, pale-brown, 3-5-septate, 

 reaching an extreme length of 200 n and a diameter of 10 ^t at 

 the base; asci cylindric or subcylindric above with a slender stem- 

 like base reaching a length of 200 m and a diameter of 20 ^u; 

 spores at first irregularly 2-seriate, separating and becoming 

 1-seriate, containing one large oil-drop and often several smaller 

 ones, smooth, reaching a diameter of 15 /x; paraphyses strongly 

 enlarged above, septate, brown. 



On sandy soil in woods, often among mosses. 



Type locality: Europe and Connecticut. 



Distribution: New York to Iowa; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa 6: 

 pi. 5, /. /; Cooke, Mycographia pi. 13, f. 52. 



ExsiccATi: N. Am. Fungi S38, 2142. 



6. Sphaerospora monilifera (Berk. & Curt.) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza monilifera Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 367. 1868. 

 Pyronemella monilifera Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 194. 1889. 



Apothecia becoming subdiscoid, reaching a diameter of 1 mm., 

 externally pale-yellow, clothed with delicate hairs; hymenium 

 pale-yellow, plane or nearly so; hairs septate, hyaline or faintly 

 colored; asci cylindric; spores smooth, hyaline, reaching a di- 

 ameter of 15-16 n; paraphyses slightly enlarged above. 



On the ground. 



Type locality: Cuba. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Illustration: Cooke, Mycographia pi. 40, f. 158. 



2. PSEUDOPLECTANIA Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 324. 1869. 



Caloscypha Boud. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 1: 103. 1885. 



Otidella Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 99. 1889. 



Melascypha Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 56. 1907. 



Apothec'a gregarious or scattered, sessile or stipitate, medium- 

 sized, usually exceeding 1 cm. in diameter, fleshy to cartilaginous, 



