Aleukia 99 



abruptly thickened above, where they reach a diameter of 3- 



On damp ground, usually among mosses. 

 Type locality: West Chester, Pennsylvania. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 

 ExsicCATi: Fungi Columb. 1733. 



4. Aleuria bicucullata Boud. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 28: 93. 1881. 



Peziza bicucullata Boud. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 1: 103. 1885. 

 Humaria bicucullata Quel. Ench. Fung. 288. 1886. 



Apothecia gregarious or crowded, sessile, at first subglobose, 

 e.xpanding and becoming subdiscoid or irregular from mutual 

 pressure, externally pale-orange or whitish, pruinose, reaching a 

 diameter of 5 mm. to 1 cm.; hymenium concave or nearly plane, 

 bright-orange or yellow; asci cylindric or subcylindric, reaching a 

 length of 200 m and a diameter of 12-15 m; spores 1-seriate, 

 obliquely disposed, at first smooth and containing one or two 

 oil-drops, finally becoming sculptured, 10-12 X 20-23 m, includ- 

 ing sculpturing; spore-sculpturing consisting of a ring-like or 

 hood-like process at one or both ends of the spore (especially 

 where the spores come into contact with each other in the ascus) 

 and irregular or often broken reticulations, the ridges of the 

 reticulations conspicuous and giving rise to the rather sharp- 

 pointed, spine-like projections, the terminal projections larger 

 and giving the spore an apiculate appearance; paraphyses rather 

 strongly enlarged above, where they reach a diameter of 5 /x- 



On bare ground or among mosses. 



Type locality: France. 



Distribution: Wisconsin and Ontario; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 28: pJ. 3, f. 1; Boud. Ic. 

 Myc. pi. 318; Mycologia 6: pi. 144 J. 3; Pat. Tab. Fung./. 371. 



5. Aleuria rhenana Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 325. 1869. (Plate 9, 



FIG. 2.) 



?Peziza radiculata Sow. Engl. Fungi pi. 114 (with descr.). 1797. 

 Peziza splendens Quel. Champ. Jura 388. 1873. 

 ?Peziza sordescens Berk. & Curt. Grevillea 3: 150. 1875. 

 Sarcoscypha rhenana Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 157. 1889. 

 ?Sarcoscypha radiculata Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 156. 1889. 

 ?Geopyxis sordescens Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 69. 1889. 



Apothecia gregarious or cespitose, stipitate, reaching a di- 

 ameter of 1-2 cm. and about half as deep, externally white or 



