172 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Distribution: New York to Nebraska and California; also 

 in Europe. 



Illustrations: Cooke, Mycographia pi. 38, f. 149, 150; 

 Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 383. 



20. Patella maculosa (Phill.) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza maculosa PhilL Grevillea 5: 116. 1877. 

 Lachnen maculosa Sacc. Syll. F"ung. 8: 171. 1889. 



Apothecia sessile, superficial or semi-immersed, fleshy, brown, 

 reaching a diameter of 1 cm., externally marked with brown spots 

 and clothed with fle.xuous hairs; hymenium slightly concave, 

 brownish; hairs slender, septate, blunt, pale-brown, minutely 

 sculptured; asci cylindric, 8-spored; spores ellipsoid, smooth, 

 hyaline, 7 X 14 ju; paraphyses filiform, septate. 



On cow dung. 



Type locality: Blue Canyon, Sierra Nevada Mountains, 

 California. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Illustrations: Grevillea S:pl. 89, f. 11; Cooke, Mycographia 

 pi. 99, f. 358. 



21. Patella pulcherrima (Crouan) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Ascobolus pulcherrimus Crouan, Ann. Sci. Nat. IV. 10: 196. 1858. 

 Peziza pulcherrima Cooke, Mycographia 84. 1876. 

 Ilumaria pulcherrima Speg. Michelia 1: 237. 1878. 

 Lachnea pulcherrima Gill. Champ. Fr. Discern. 76. 1880. 

 Cheilymenia pulcherrima Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 63. 1907. 

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

 Lasiobolus pulcherrimus Schrot. Krypt.-Fl. Schles. 3-: 54. 1893. 



Apothecia gregarious or congested, often forming dense masses 

 several cm. in diameter, short-cylindric, scarcely exceeding 1 mm. 

 in diameter and reaching a height of 1 mm., externally pale- 

 yellow and sparingly clothed with hairs; hymenium plane or 

 concave, bright-yellow; hairs small, rigid, enlarged at their bases, 

 acute at their apices, 2-4-septate, pale-brown, reaching a length 

 of 100-200 ^t and a diameter of 15 /x at their bases; asci cylindric 

 or subcylindric, reaching a length of 200-235 fx and a diameter 

 of 20 fx; spores 1-seriate, ellipsoid, hyaline or very slightly 

 yellowish, smooth, thin-walled, often collapsing on one side, 

 10-12 X 20-22 ;u; paraphyses filiform, slightly enlarged above, 

 yellow. 



On cow dung. 



