Patella 167 



On dead and often partially rotted wood of deciduous trees. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to North Dakota, Colorado and 

 Nicaragua; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 370; Cooke, Mycographia 

 pi. 34, f. 133; Nees, Syst. Pilze pi. 37, f. 275; Gill. Champ. Fr. 

 Discom. (suites); Proc. Ohio Acad. Sci. 5: pi. 1, f. 1-7. 



ExsiccATi: N. Am. Fungi 2033, 2910 (as Peziza vitelUna 

 Pers.) ; Seaver, North Dakota Fungi 27 ; Brenckle, Fungi Dakot. 

 458. 



14. Patella Sequoiae (Phill.) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza Sequoiae Phill. Grevillea 7: 22. 1878. 

 Lachnea Sequoiae Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 176. 1889. 

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



Apothecia gregarious, sessile, reaching a diameter of 3-vS mm., 

 externally clothed with hairs; hymenium concave, reddish or 

 flesh-colored ; hairs short near the base, the marginal ones reaching 

 a length of 600 /x long, straight and subacute, sparingly septate; 

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

 hyaline, 12-13 X 17-20 /x; paraphyses filiform, slightly enlarged 

 above. 



On dead twigs of Sequoia gigantea. 



Type locality: California. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Illustration: Cooke, Mycographia pi. 113, f. 403. 



15. Patella melaloma (Alb. & Schw.) Seaver, comb. nov. (Plate 



15, FIG. 2.) 



Humaria melaloma Massee, Brit. Fungus-Fl. 4: 411. 1895. 



Peziza melaloma Alb. & Schw. Consp. Fung. 336. 1805. 



Peziza intermixta Karst. Not. Fauna Fl. Fenn. 10: 119. 1869. 



Pyronema melalomum Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 319. 1869. 



Peziza adusta Cooke & Peck; Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 27: 107. 



1875. 

 Aletiria melaloma Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 54. 1879. 

 Humaria melalomoides Rehm in Sydow, Mycoth. March. 77S. 1884. 

 Lachnea melaloma Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 181. 1889. 

 ?Humaria macrocystis Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 122. 1889. 

 ?Pyronema subhirsutiim Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 108. 1889. 

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

 Humariella melaloma Schrot. Krypt.-Fl. 3^: 37. 1893. 

 Lachnea intermixta Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. P: 1047. 1896. 

 Humaria adusta Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 141. 1889. 



