182 The North American Cup-Fungi 



28. PHILLIPSIA Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 18: 388. 1881. 



Apothecia usually eccentric, attached by a very broad base 

 which is often extended into a rather long, thick stem; hymenium 

 concave or plane, bright-colored, the substance not shrinking 

 much in drying; asci cylindric or subcylindric, 8-spored; spores 

 usually striate, subhyaline; paraphyses very slender. 



Type species, Peziza domingensis Berk. 



Apothecia cup-shaped, reddish-purple. 



Apothecia not exceeding a diameter of 2 cm. 1. P. domingensis. 

 Apothecia reaching a diameter of 4-6 cm. 



Cup-shaped; substance thick. 2. P. gigantea. 



Orbicular; substance thin. 3. P. Cliardoniana. 



Apothecia spoon-shaped, yellowish-brown. 4. P. dochmia. 



1. Phillipsia domingensis Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 18: 388. 1881. 

 (Plate 17, fig. 2.) 



Peziza domingensis Berk. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. II. 9: 201. 1852. 

 Helotinm purpuratum Kalchbr. in Thiim. Myc. Univ. 1614. 1880. 

 ?Peziza Harmoge Berk. & Br. Jour. Linn. Soc. 14: 104. 1875. 

 ?Peziza cordovensis Cooke, Hedwigia 14: 81. 1875. 

 Phillipsia kermesina Kalchbr. & Cooke, Grevillea 9: 25. 1880. 

 Phillipsia siibpurpiirea Berk. & Br. Trans. Linn. Soc. II. 2: 69. 1883. 

 Lachnea crispata Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 169. 1889. 

 Otidea domingensis Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 97. 1889. 



Apothecia shallow cup-shaped or subdiscoid usually unequal- 

 sided or occasionally regular in form, attached by a broad base 

 which is often extended into a thick stem, externally nearly 

 white or with a pinkish tinge, fading when dry, more or less 

 tomentose, especially near the base, reaching a diameter of 

 1-2 cm. the substance tough and corky when dry; hymenium 

 concave or nearly plane, dark reddish-purple, becoming pitted as 

 a result of shrinkage in drying which gives it the appearance of a 

 resupinate polypore; stem often reaching a length of 1 cm. and 

 several mm. thick, or nearly wanting; asci cylindric above, 

 reaching a length of 300-360 /x and a diameter of 15-20 /x, 

 gradually tapering below into a stem-like base; spores 1-seriate 

 or with the ends slightly overlapping, ellipsoid, unequal-sided, 

 the ends blunt or rarely narrowed, striated, the striations con- 

 sisting of a few bands extending the length of the spore, containing 

 one or two large oil-drops and often several smaller ones; pa- 

 raphyses filiform, slightly enlarged above. 



On old wood and bark. 



