Patella 



169 



50-75 M, the walls hyaline or very faintly yellowish; hairs 2-4- 

 pronged or more rarely with five or six rays springing from nearly 

 the same point, the basal cell often enlarged and irregularly 

 rectangular, the rays reaching a diameter of 20 m at their bases 

 and a length of 500-600 ^u, sharp-pointed, pale-brown; asci 

 cylindric or subcylindric, reaching a length of 200-225 fj. and a 

 diameter of 12-14 /x; spores 1-seriate, ellipsoid, smooth, thin- 

 walled and easily collapsing, 9 X 15-20 /x; paraphyses clavate, 

 filled with orange granules. 



On rich sandy soil in coniferous woods, occasionally on bits 

 of wood. 



Type locality: Great Britain. 



Distribution: Washington; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Cooke, Mycographia pi. 60, f. 237; Gill. 

 Champ. Fr. Discom. pi. 71; Pat. Tab. Fung. /. 481. 



17. Patella stercorea (Pers.) Weber; Wiggers, Fl. Hols. 106. 

 1780. 



?Elvela I Idea Scop. Fl. Carn. 2: 48L 1772. 



Peziza stercorea Pers. Obs. Myc. 2: 89. 1799. 



Peziza ciliata Bull. Champ. Fr. 1: 257. 1809. 



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



/Humaria alpina Fuckel, Symb. Myc. Nacht. 3: 32. 1875. 



Lachnea stercorea Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 76. 1880. 



Lasioholiis stercoreus Karst. Act. Fauna Fl. Fenn. 2: 122. 1885iJ-l 



?Lachnea alpina Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 180. 1889. /^^ 



?Scutellinia alpina Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 869. 1891. ^ 



Scutellinia stercorea Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 869. 1891. \ ^/^ 



Htimariella stercorea Schrot. Krypt.-Fl. Schles. 3-: 37. 1893. *r 



Patella lutea Morgan, Jour. Myc. 8: 188. 1902. 



Cheilymenia stercorea Bond. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 63. 1907. 



Apothecia gregarious or crowded, expanding and becoming 

 scutellate to discoid, externally pale-yellowish, clothed with 

 hairs of two kinds, simple and compound, reaching a diameter 

 of 2 mm.; hymenium plane or concave, bright-orange; the simple 

 hairs confined mainly to the margin of the apothecium, giving 

 rise to a conspicuous fringe-like border, reaching a length of 

 1 mm. and a diameter of 25-50 yu, 2-5-septate, thick-walled, 

 acute at the apex and with an enlarged and often forked base, 

 dark-brown; stellate hairs usually not extending above the 

 margin of the apothecium, consisting of a triangular or rec- 

 tangular basal portion with 2-5 rays which are straight, acute 

 at their apices, and reach a maximum length of 200 /x, the rays 



