Patella 159 



1. Patella scutellata (L.) Morgan, Jour. Myc. 8: 187. 1902. 

 (Plate 14, fig. 2; 45, fig. 19.) 



Peziza scutellata L. Sp. PI. 118L 1753. 

 Elvela ciliata Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: 112. 1774. 

 Patella ciliata Weber; Wiggers, Fl. Hols. 106. 1780. 

 Peziza aurantiaca Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 10. 1780. 

 Octospora scutellata Hedw. Descr. 2: 10. 1788. 

 Peziza ciliata Hoffm. Veg. Crypt. 2: 25. 1790. 

 Humaria scutellata Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 321. 1869. 

 ?Peziza laeticolor Karst. Myc. Fenn. 1: 66. 1871. 

 Lachnea scutellata Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 75. 1879. 

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

 ?Scutellinia laeticolor Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pi. 2: 869 1891. 

 Htimariella scutellata Schrot. Krypt.-Fl. Schles. 3-: 37. 1893. 

 Ciliaria scutellata Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 61. 1907. 



Apothecia gregarious or occasionally crowded, at first globose, 

 closed and appearing dark-brown by reason of the hairs with 

 which the exterior is covered, expanding and becoming scutellate 

 at maturity, with the margin slightly elevated and fringed with 

 hairs which may be very short or may extend beyond the margin 

 a length of 1 mm.; hymenium bright-red, almost vermillion, 

 fading in dried specimens to pale-yellow or almost white; hairs 

 swollen just above the base and rather abruptly constricted 

 below at the point of attachment, gradually tapering above to 

 a bristly-like apex, thick-walled, several septate, reaching a 

 diameter of 35-40 n at the thickest point and a length of 1 mm.; 

 asci cylindric or subcylindric, reaching a diameter of 12-15 fx 

 and a length of 200-225 /j.; spores 1 -seriate or irregularly crowded 

 at first densely filled with oil-drops and smooth, the surface 

 finally becoming delicately sculptured, 12-15 X 20-24 m; spore- 

 sculpturing consisting of minute warts; paraphyses strongly 

 enlarged above, reaching a diameter of 7-10 n at their apices. 



On rotten wood or more rarely on soil and leaf -mould. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Maine to Washington and Mexico; also in 

 Europe. 



Illustrations: Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 368; Bull. Lab. Nat. 

 Hist. State Univ. Iowa 6: pi. 10, f. 1; Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 10; 

 Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. pi. 284; Cooke, Mycographia pi. 34, 

 f. 131; Pat. Tab. Fung. /. 81; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. V: 181, /. 147, 

 A-B; Massee, Brit. Fungus-Fl. 4: 290,/. 20, 21; Rab. Krypt.-Fl. 

 V: 1034,/. 1-4; Sow. Engl. Fungi pi. 24; Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 

 (suites); Bolton, Geschichte 3: pi. 108, f. 1. 



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