118 The North American Cup-Fungi 



ternally smooth, reaching a diameter of 0.3-1 mm.; hymenium 

 plane or a little concave, finally convex, the color a little brighter 

 than that of the outside of the apothecium, roughened by the 

 protruding asci; asci cylindric above, slightly tapering below, 

 reaching a diameter of 12-14 yu, 8-spored; spores 1-seriate, 

 parallel with the ascus or diagonally disposed, more rarely 

 crowded, ellipsoid, smooth, subhyaline or faintly yellowish, 

 8-10 X 15-20 /x; paraphyses slender, enlarged above, where they 

 reach a diameter of 5-6 ix. 



On dung of various kinds. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to West Virginia and Bermuda; 

 also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 37: pi. 5, /. 7; 

 Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 10: pi. 11, f. 34; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 1^: 189, 

 /. 152, D. 



13. Ascophanus gallinaceus (Peck) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza gaUinacea Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 31: 46. 1879. 

 Humaria gaUinacea Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 135. 1889. 



Apothecia gregarious or scattered, yellowish to ochraceous, 

 sessile or with the base slightly projected below, externally 

 slightly furfuraceous, the margin often wavy or irregular, reaching 

 a diameter of 2-3 mm.; hymenium smooth, similar in color to 

 the outside of the apothecium; asci cylindric, reaching a length 

 of 150 IX and a diameter of 10 /x, 8-spored ; spores ellipsoid, smooth, 

 1-seriate, occupying the upper part of the ascus only, about 

 5-6 X 10-11 m; paraphyses slender, enlarged above at their 

 apices. 



On partridge dung. 



Type locality: Oneida, New York. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



14. Ascophanus cinereus (Crouan) Boud. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 10: 

 249. 1869. (Plate 11, fig. U.) 



Ascoholus cinereus Crouan, Ann. Sci. Nat. W . 10: 194. 1858. 

 Peziza cinerea Karst. Myc. Fenn. 1: 59. 1871. 

 Ascophamis crustaceus Starb. Bot. Not. 1898: 216. 1898. 



Apothecia gregarious or closely crowded, at first subglobose 

 or pyriform, becoming short-cylindric, finally expanding to 

 discoid or subdiscoid and narrowed below into a stem-like base. 



