152 The North American Cup-Fungi 



On sandy soil. 

 Type locality; Europe. 



Distribution: New York to Colorado; also in Europe. 

 Illustrations: Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 361; Cooke, Mycographia 

 pi. 30, f. 117. 



4. Sepultaria aurantia Clements, Bot. Surv. Nebr. 4: 12. 1896. 



?Peziza hybrida Sow. Engl. Fungi 369. 1803. 



?ScuteUinia hybrida Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 869. 1891. 



Lachnea aurantia Sacc. & Sydow in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 14: 757. 1899. 



Apothecia scattered or crowded, sessile, concave-hemispheric, 

 subsuperficial, reaching a diameter of 1-2 cm., externally clothed 

 with hairs; hymenium concave, reddish or orange; hairs flexuous 

 near the base, those on the exposed parts rigid, septate, dark- 

 brown; asci cylindric or subcylindric; spores 1-seriate, ellipsoid, 

 containing one or two oil-drops, smooth, 8-10 X 18-25 m; pa- 

 raphyses slightly enlarged above, filled with orange granules. 



On damp ground. 



Type locality: Bellevue, Nebraska. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



Illustrations: ?Sow. Engl. Fungi pi. 369, f. 1; Boud. Ic. 

 Myc. pi. 356; Cooke, Mycographia pi. 32, f. 126, b. 



5. Sepultaria pellita (Cooke & Peck) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza pellita Cooke & Peck, Grevillea 1: 5. 1872. 

 Lachnea pellita Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 169. 1889. 

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



Apothecia scattered or gregarious, sessile and at first entirely 

 immersed in the soil, the margin of the cup appearing above the 

 surface of the soil when expanded, entire or splitting, reaching a 

 diameter of 12 cm., externally clothed with flexuous hairs which 

 penetrate into the substratum, binding together the particles of 

 sand and humus on which they grow; hymenium concave, 

 yellowish to pale-orange; hairs brown, sparingly septate, of 

 nearly uniform thickness throughout their entire length, reaching 

 a diameter of 7-8 /x; asci cylindric above, reaching a length 

 of 300 IX and a diameter of 20 m; spores 1-seriate or occasionally 

 slightly crowded in the upper part of the ascus; ellipsoid, the 

 ends rather strongly narrowed, containing one or two large oil- 

 drops, 12-14 X 25-33 m; paraphyses rather strongly enlarged 

 above, reaching a diameter of 7-8 ju, filled with yellow granules. 



On sandy soil among mosses and humus. 



