184 The North American Cup-Fungi 



unequal-sided, usually containing two large oil-drops, longi- 

 tudinally striated with light and dark bands, about 12 X 26 fx. 



On decaying wood. 



Type locality: Ajuntas, Porto Rico. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Illustration: Mycologia 17: pi. 4. 



4. Phillipsia dochmia (Berk. & Curt.) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza dochmia Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 364. 1869. 

 ?Peziza hirneoloides Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 365. 1869. 

 Otidea dochmia Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 95. 1889. 

 ?Otidea hirneoloides Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 96. 1889. 



Apothecia subsessile and attached by a rather thick, stem- 

 like base, at maturity decidedly spoon-shaped, yellowish to 

 yellowish-brown, reaching a diameter of 2-4 cm.; hymenium a 

 little darker than the outside of the apothecium; asci cylindric 

 above, tapering below; spores 1-seriate, or with the ends slightly 

 overlapping, ellipsoid, strongly unequal-sided, usually containing 

 two large oil-drops and numerous smaller ones, the striations 

 consisting of rather broad light and dark bands extending the 

 length of the spore; 12-15 X 25-33 fx; paraphyses slender, slightly 

 enlarged above, adhering closely together. 



On rotten wood. 



Type locality: Cuba. 



Distribution: Cuba. 



Illustration: Cooke, Mycographia pi. 56, f. 220, 221. 



29. SCODELLINA S. F. Gray, Nat. Arrang. Brit. PI. 1: 



668. 1821. 



Otidea Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 329. 1869. 



Wynnella Boud. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 1: 102. 1885. 



Apothecia scattered or crowded, often cespitose and occa- 

 sionally fused together at the base or branched, usually large or 

 medium sized, substipitate, rarely with a well-developed stem, 

 usually unsymmetrical, split on one side or elongated and 

 inclined to ear-shaped, externally usually furfuraceous; asci 

 typically cylindric, 8-spored; spores smooth, usually containing 

 one or two oil-drops; paraphyses filiform or very slightly enlarged 

 above, simple or branched, straight or more often hooked at 

 their apices. 



Type species, Peziza leporina Batsch. 



