50 The North American Cup-Fungi 



pi. 109 (lower figure); Krombh. Abbild. pi. 16, f. a, b; Proc. Roy. 

 Soc. Victoria U. 3S: pi. 4, f. 4-6; pi. 6,f. 2. 



3. Pseudoplectania fulgens (Pers.) Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 324. 

 1869. 



Peziza fulgens Pers. Myc. Eu. 1: 241. 1822. 



Peziza cyanoderma DeBary in Rab. Fungi Eu. 516. 1863. 



Aleuria fulgens Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 41. 1879. 



Oti dell a fulgens Sacc. Syli. Fung. 8: 99. 1889. 



Barlaea fulgens Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. V: 930. 1896. 



Plicariella fulgens Lindau in E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 1': 180. 1897. 



Detonia fulgens Durand, Bull. Torrey Club 29: 459. 1902. 



Caloscypha fulgens Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 54. 1907. 



Apothecia scattered or more rarely crowded, regular or 

 irregular in form, occasionally unequal-sided or split Olidea- 

 like, substipitate and attached to the substratum by a dense 

 mass of coarse mycelium which penetrates into the humus 

 binding it together, reaching a diameter of 5 mm. to 2.5 cm., ex- 

 ternally pale-orange, becoming greenish or olivaceous, especially 

 about the margin, sparingly clothed with poorly developed 

 hairs; hymenium orange, brighter than the outside of the apo- 

 thecium; hairs short, clavate, consisting of a few loosely united 

 cells; asci cylindric above, gradually tapering below into a long 

 stem-like base, reaching a length of 100 m and a diameter of 

 10-12 m; spores at first 2-seriate, separating and finally becoming 

 1-seriate, reaching a diameter of 6-8 m, hyaline; paraphyses 

 slender, scarcely enlarged above, filled with orange granules. 



On soil in coniferous woods. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to Montana and California; also 

 in Europe. 



Illustrations: Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 319; Cooke, Mycographia 

 pi. 53, f. 209; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. l^: 179,/. 146, C, D; Gill. Champ. 

 Fr. Discom. pi. 38; Pat. Tab. Fung./. 377. 



The bright-orange color of this species is in marked contrast 

 to that of the other two species recorded here both of which are 

 black. The outside of the apothecium is often overcast with an 

 olive tint. It is a beautiful species but only rarely collected. 



