156 The North American Cup-Fungi 



On dung of various kinds. 



Type locality : Europe. 



Distribution: Massachusetts to South Carolina, North 

 Dakota, Colorado, California, and the Bermuda Islands; also in 

 Europe. 



Illustrations: F1. Dan. pi. 779, f. 3; Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 10: 

 pi. 12, f. 42-44; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. V: 189,/. 152, A-C; Bull. Lab. 

 Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa 6: pi. 32, f. 1; Rab. Krypt.-Fl. V: 

 1081,/. 1-4; Pat. Tab. Fung. pi. 487. 



Exsiccati: N. Am. Fungi 2334; Ravenel, Fungi Car. 5: 37; 

 Clements, Crypt. Form. Colo. 122. 



2. Lasiobolus ruber (Quel.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 537. 1889. 

 Ascophanus ruber Quel. Cirevillea 8: 117. 1880. 



Apothecia gregarious or crowded in small congested masses, 

 at first subglobose, becoming discoid or subdiscoid, reaching a 

 diameter of 0.5-1 mm., externally densely clothed with hairs; 

 hymenium concave, plane or convex, bright-red; hairs swollen 

 just above the base and contracted at the point of attachment, 

 tapering above into a bristle-like apex, hyaline or subhyaline, 

 reaching a length of 500 n and a diameter of 30 m; asci cylindric 

 to clavate, reaching a length of 200 m and a diameter of 25-30 /x, 

 tapering rather abruptly below into a stem-like base; spores at 

 first 1 -seriate, obliquely arranged with the ends overlapping, 

 often becoming 2-seriate or irregularly crowded, ellipsoid, 12-14 

 X 24-30 At; paraphyses about 3 m in diameter, enlarged upwards, 

 reaching a diameter of 5-6 m at their apices. 



On cow dung. 



Type locality: Jura Mountains. 



Distribution: Colorado; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Grevillea 8: pi. 131, f. 8; Assoc. Fr. Av. Sci. 

 Compte Rendu 12: pi. 7,f. 13; Bond. Ic. Myc. pi. 415. 



26. PATELLA Weber; Wiggers, Fl. Hols. 106. 1780. 



Humaria Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 320. 1869. Not Humaria Sacc. 



Lachnea Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 57. 1879. Not Lachnaea L. 1762. 



{Lachnea, 1753.) 

 Peziza § Sc'utellinia Cooke, Mycographia 260. 1879. 

 Peziza § Neottiella Cooke, Mycographia 261. 1879. 

 Octospora Hedwig, Descr. 2: 4, 10. 1788. (in part.) 

 Ciliaria Quel.; Boud. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 1: 105. 1885. See Bull. Soc. Bot. 



Fr. 26: 235. 1879. Not Ciliaria Stackh., 1809, nor Ciliaria Haworth, 



1821. 



