Patella 175 



or subcylindric above, tapering into a stem-like base, reaching 

 a length of 300-500 /x and a diameter of 25-27 /x; spores 1-seriate, 

 at first smooth, containing two oil-drops, soon becoming sculp- 

 tured, reaching a length of 30-35 /x and a diameter of 20-22 /x, 

 hyaline; spore-sculpturing taking the form of numerous tubercles 

 which reach a diameter of 3 m f>r rarely as large as 4-5 m, the 

 tubercles rounded and giving the spore a scalloped appearance; 

 paraphyses slender below, enlarged above, reaching a diameter 

 of 7-9 ju at their apices. 



On damp sandy soil among mosses. 



Type locality: The New York Botanical Garden. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Distinguished from the preceding by the larger spores and 

 coarser tubercles. 



26. Patella albida (Schaeff.) Seaver ; Brenckle, Fungi Dakot. 407. 

 1916. (Plate 14, fig. 1.) 



Elvela albida Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: lOL 1774. 



Peziza hemisphaerica Weber; Wiggers, Fl. Hols. 105. 1780. 



Peziza labeUum Bull. Champ. Fr. pi. 204. 1784. 



Octospora fasciculata Hedw. Descr. 2: 14. 1788. 



Peziza hispida Sow. Engl. Fungi pi. 147. 1798. 



Humaria hemisphaerica Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 322. 1869. 



Lachnea hemispherica Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 73. 1879. 



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



Sepultaria albida Morgan, Jour. Myc. 8: 188. 1902. 



?Scutellinia chaetoloma Clements, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 89. 1903. 



? Lachnea chaetoloma Sacc. & D. Sacc. in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 18: 34. 1906. 



Apothecia gregarious or scattered, at first globose and closed, 

 gradually expanding and becoming concave-hemispheric, or 

 occasionally shallow cup-shaped, reaching a diameter of 2-3 cm. 

 and about one-half or one-third as deep, the margin wavy or 

 regular, externally entirely clothed with tufted hairs which 

 project and form a fringe about the margin of the apothecium; 

 hymenium white or whitish, becoming yellowish or yellowish- 

 brown in dried specimens; hairs enlarged at the base, tapering 

 above into a bristle-like apex, reaching a diameter of 15-20 /x at 

 the base and a length of 400-500 m, dark-brown,, septate, the 

 walls about 3^ thick; asci cylindric or subcylindric above, 

 tapering rather abruptly below into a stem-like base, reaching a 

 length of 325 M and a diameter of 15-18 m; spores 1-seriate, 

 ellipsoid, 12-15 X 25-27 /x, hyaline or subhyaline, usually con- 

 taining two large oil-drops which become more or less broken 



