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externally clothed with short, slender, flexuous, often coiled or 

 twisted hairs, giving to the outside of the apothecium a tomentose 

 appearance, blackish to orange or greenish; hymenium concave, 

 orange or blackish; asci cylindric or subcylindric, 8-spored; 

 spores perfectly globose, smooth, hyaline or faintly colored; 

 paraphyses very slender, straight or curved at their apices. 

 Type species, Peziza nigrella Pers. 



Apothecia entirely black or brownish-black. 



Long-stipitate, sparingly clothed with straight or slightly 



flexuous hairs. 1. P. vogesiaca. 



Short-stipitate or sessile, densely clothed with coiled 



hairs. 2. P. nigrella. 



Apothecia orange or occasionally with a greenish tint about 



the outer margin. 3. P.fulgens. 



1. Pseudoplectania vogesiaca (Pers.) Seaver, Mycologia 5: 300. 

 1913. (Plate 1, fig. 1.) 



? Peziza fuscocana Alb. & Schw. Consp. Fung. 312. 1805. 

 Peziza vogesiaca Pers.; Moug. & Nest. Stirpes Crypt. 584. 1818. 

 Peziza melania Pers. Myc. Eu. 1: 239. 1822. 

 Peziza melaena Fries, Syst. Myc. 2: 60. 1822. 

 Peziza spongiosa Peck, Bot. Gaz. 5: 35. 1880. 

 Bulgaria spongiosa Peck, Bot. Gaz. 6: 241. 1881. 

 Pseudoplectania melaena Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 165. 1889. 

 Pulparia spongiosa Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 612. 1889. 

 ?Otide!la fuscocana Schrot. Krypt.-Fl. Schles. 3': 49. 1893. 

 Melascypha melaena Bond. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 56. 1907. 



Apothecia gregarious or scattered, stipitate, cup-shaped or 

 occasionally nearly plane, the margin often wavy, reaching a 

 diameter of 2-3 cm. and a depth of 1-2 cm., externally very 

 sparingly tomentose, becoming strongly wrinkled when dry, 

 black or blackish; substance subcartilaginous; hymenium dark 

 olivaceous-brown, concave or nearly plane; stem very variable 

 in length but occasionally reaching 2-3 cm. and about 3 mm. 

 thick, black, attached at the base by a dense mass of coarse, dark- 

 brown hairs; tomentum consisting of short, brown, flexuous, 

 sparingly septate hairs; asci cylindric above, with a very long 

 stem-like base, reaching a length of 200-275 /x and a diameter 

 of 16-18 ju; spores 1-seriate, containing one large oil-drop, be- 

 coming very pale-brown, reaching a diameter of 12-14 jx; paraph- 

 yses slender, slightly enlarged above and coiled or hooked at 

 their apices, reaching a diameter of 3 4 yu. 



