108 The North American Cup-Fungi 



of prominent wart-like protuberances; paraphyses stout, much 

 enlarged above, filled with dark-brown coloring matter. 



On decaying cedar wood. 



Type locality: North Bend, King County, Washington. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



5. Psilopezia flavida Berk. & Curt. Grevillea 4: 1. 1875. 

 Apothecia crowded and occasionally confluent, orbicular in 



form when solitary, reaching a diameter of 3-6 mm., the margin 

 free and often raised when mature; hymenium concave, plane or 

 convex, yellow; asci narrowly cylindric, reaching a length of 

 120 )U and a diameter of 7-8 m; spores 1-seriate, hyaline, smooth, 

 ellipsoid, 7 ;u X 12-14 m, containing two oil-drops; paraphyses 

 stout, scarcely thickened above, not longer than the asci. 



On rotten wood of Quercus alba. 



Type locality: Alabama. 



Distribution: Alabama. 



Illustration: Jour. Linn. Soc. 31: pi. 16, f. 10. 



6. Psilopezia aquatica (DC.) Rehm; Sacc. & D. Sacc. in Sacc. 

 Syll. Fung. 18: 12. 1906. 



Peziza aquatica DC. in Lam. Encyc. 5: 216. 1804. 



Peltidium Oocardii Kalch. Heclwigia 2: 58. 1862. 



Peziza Oocardii lignaria P. Karst. Not. Fauna Fl. Fenn. 10: 128. 1869. 



Peziza Oocardii Karst. Myc. Fenn. 1: 84. 1871. 



Peziza lechithina Cooke, Grevillea 4: 110. 1876. 



Peltidium lignarium Karst.; Hazsl. in Oesterr. Bot. Zeits. 32: 7. 1882. 



Peltidium Cookei Hazsl. in Oesterr. Bot. Zeits. 32: 7. 1882. 



Humaria lechithina Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 126. 1889. 



Humaria Oocardii Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 144. 1889. 



Humaria aquatica Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. V: 954. 1896. 



Psilopezia Oocardii Sacc. & D. Sacc. in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 18: 11. 1906. 



Apothecia gregarious, sessile, becoming discoid and closely 

 adhering to the substratum, surrounded about the margin by a 

 white radiating mycelium, reaching a diameter of 3-5 mm. ; 

 hymenium plane or slightly convex, bright-orange or becoming 

 dingy with age, blackish when dry; asci cylindric above, gradually 

 tapering below, reaching a length of 275 m and a diameter of 

 16-20 M, becoming strongly spirally twisted; spores ellipsoid, 1- 

 seriate, usually containing two oil-drops or occasionally with 

 numerous smaller ones, hyaline or faintly yellowish, 12-13 

 X 20-24 /x, smooth or becoming minutely sculptured; spore- 

 sculpturing, when present, consisting of very minute granules; 



