180 The North American Cup-Fungi 



NeoUiella Spraguei (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 190. 1889; 

 Peziza Spraguei Berk. & Curt.; Cooke, Bull. Buffalo Acad. Sci. 2: 289. 1875. 

 Examination of a specimen of this species in the herbarium of The New York 

 Botanical Garden shows it to be a small specimen of Peziza but its exact 

 identity is uncertain. 



Lachnea livida (Schum.) Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 73. 1880; Peziza 

 livida Schum. Enum. PI. Saell. 2: 422. 1803. American specimens referred 

 to this name do not differ from Patella Erinaceus (Schw.) Seaver. 



NeoUiella alhotecta (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 191. 1889; 

 Peziza alhotecta Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 367. 1868. No 

 specimen of this species has been seen and its identity is uncertain. 



Lachnea hirta (Schum.) Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 75. 1880; Peziza 

 /rjr/a Schum. Enum. PI. Saell. 2:422. 1803. Most of the specimens examined 

 under this name have been found to be either Patella timbrorum or Patella 

 scuteUata. In 1881, Rehm described Iliimaria hirtella as intermediate between 

 Peziza hirta and P. scuteUata. Later this species was made a synonym of 

 Lachnea hirta (Schum.) Gill. We have no means of knowing just what 

 Scumacher's species really was and since in current literature the name has 

 been interpreted differently no species can be found to which the name can 

 be applied with certainty. 



NeoUiella sericeovillosa Rehm; Kellerm. Jour. Myc. 14: 6. 1908. No 

 specimen of this species has been seen and its identity is in doubt. The 

 species was described from material collected in Guatemala. 



Lachnea fissilis (Sacc. & Cooke) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 169. 1889; Peziza 

 fissilis Sacc. & Cooke, Michelia 2: 257. 1881. The specie, was reported 

 from Nebraska by Clements, placed in the subgenus Sepultaria and said to 

 be closely related to S. Geaster, S. tenuis and S. arenosa. 



Neottiella callichroa (Bond.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 190. 1889; Humaria 

 callichroa Boud. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 28: 93. 1881. Reported from Nebraska 

 by Clements. No specimen has been seen, 



NeoUiopezis macrospora Clements, Bull. Torrey Cluli 30: 89. 1903 

 Apothecia described as 3-6 mm. in diameter and spores 16-18 X 40-42 /x. 

 No specimen has been seen. 



27. WYNNEA Berk, e^ Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 9: 424. 1867. 



Apothecia usually cespitose and branched at the base, spring- 

 ing from a sclerotium buried in the substratum, thick, firm, sub- 

 cartilaginous, tough and subcoriaceous in drying, erect, elongate 

 ear-shaped or spoon-shaped, simple or proliferous; asci cylindric 

 or subcylindric, 8-.spored; spores ellipsoid to fusoid, unequal- 

 sided ; paraphyses stout, simple or branched. 



Type species, Wynnea gigantea Berk. & Curt. 



Spores 12 X 25-30 m- 1- W- gigantea. 



Spores 15-16 X 32-40 n. 2. W. americana. 



