Sepultaria 149 



like; hymenium concave, whitish or orange to red; asci 8-spored; 

 spores ellipsoid; paraphyses present and variable. 

 Type species, Peziza sepulta Fries. 



Apothecia large, 1-4 cm. in diameter, entirely buried and 

 appearing as a hole in the ground. 

 Spores ellipsoid, 15-17 X 25-30^1. 1. 5. arenicola. 



Spores subglobose, 18-20 X 20-22 //. 2. 5. Loyigii. 



Apothecia medium-sized, seldom exceeding 1 cm., partially 

 buried. 

 Hymenium white or whitish. 3. S. arenosa. 



Hymenium orange or reddish. 



Spores 8-10 X 18-25 m; hairs rigid. 4. 5. aurantiaca. 



Spores 12-14 X 25-33 m; hairs entirely flexuous. 5. S. pellita. 



1. Sepultaria arenicola (Lev.) Massee, Brit. Fungus-Fl. 4: 390. 



1895. 

 ?Peziza lanuginosa Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 396, f. 2. 1788. 

 Peziza arenicola Lev. Ann. Sci. Nat. HI. 9: 140. 1848. 

 Peziza sepulta Fries; Berk. & Br. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. II. 13: 463. 1854. 

 Peziza Geaster Berk. & Br. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. HI. 18: 125. 1866. 

 Peziza lanuginosa Sumneri Berk. Trans. Linn. Soc. 25: 432. 1866. 

 Lachnea arenicola Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 77. 1879. 

 Lachnea Siimneriana Phill. Brit. Discom. 213. 1887. 

 Lachnea lanuginosa Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 167. 1889. 

 Lachnea Geaster Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 172. 1889. 

 Lachnea sepulta Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 170. 1889. 

 Scutellinia Geaster Kuntzc, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 869. 1891. 

 Scutellinia sepulta Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 869. 1891. 

 Scutellinia Sumneriana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 869. 1891. 

 Scutellinia arenicola Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 869. 1891. 

 ?Scutellinia lanuginosa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL 2: 869. 1891. 

 Sarcosphaera arenicola Lindau in E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 1^: 182. 1897. 

 Sarcosphaera Sumneriana Lindau in E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 1^: 182. 1897. 

 Sarcosphaera Geaster Lindau in E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 1^: 182. 1897. 

 Sepultaria heterothrix Clements, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 91. 1903. 

 Lachnea heterothrix Sacc. & D. Sacc. in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 18: 33. 1906. 

 Sepultaria Sumneri Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 59. 1907. 

 Sepultaria sepulta Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 59. 1907. 

 Sepultaria Geaster Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 59. 1907. 



Apothecia gregarious, at first closed and entirely immersed in 

 the ground, at maturity opening and appearing as a hole in the 

 ground, sometimes becoming semisuperficial, margin incurved 

 and entire or splitting irregularly, reaching a diameter of 1-4 cm., 

 externally brown and densely clothed with brown flexuous hairs 

 which bind the substratum together so that the whole exterior 

 of the apothecium is encrusted with sand, the exterior of the cup 



