186 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Wynnella auricula Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 51. 1907. 

 Otidea neglecta Massee, Grevillea 22: 66. 1893. 



Apothecia gregarious or scattered, spoon-shaped or ear- 

 shaped, elongated on one side and entirely split to the base of 

 the opposite side, the margin even or more or less crenate, 

 externally bright-yellow or becoming yellowish-brown, remaining 

 lighter toward the base, reaching a height of 4-5 cm. and half 

 as broad; hymenium a little darker than the outside of the 

 apothecium, often becoming brownish-black with age; asci 

 cylindric or subcylindric, attenuated below into a stem-like 

 base, reaching a length of 250 ju and a diameter of 20 /x; spores 

 1-seriate, broad-ellipsoid, each containing one large oil-drop 

 and numerous small ones, 12-13 X 20-24 /x, paraphyses slender, 

 strongly enlarged above where they reach a diameter of 10 /x, 

 filled with yellowish granules. 



On the ground in woods. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Florida to Wisconsin and Alberta; also in 

 Europe. 



Illustrations: Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. pi. 156 (in part); 

 Bres. Fungi Trid. pi. 73; Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 250; Cooke, My- 

 cographia pi. 54, f. 213. 



3. Scodellina grandis (Pers.) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza grandis Pers. Obs. Myc. 1: 27. 1796. 



Otidea grandis Massee, Brit. Fungus-Fl. 4: 446. 1895. 



?Otidea Harperiana Rehm, Ann. Myc. 2: 34. 1994. 



Apothecia cespitose or solitary, sessile or substipitate, shallow 

 cup-shaped, the margin incurved, usually split on one side to 

 near the base and with the split edge rolled inward, externally 

 yellowish to dark-brownish, with a tinge of olive, pruinose 

 above and whitish tomentose toward the base, reaching a 

 diameter of 5-6 cm. and about half as deep; hymenium pale- 

 yellow, lighter than the outside of the apothecium; asci cylindric 

 above, gradually tapering below, reaching a length of 280 ^ and 

 a diameter of 12-13 ^ at the widest point, 8-spored; spores 

 1-seriate, parallel or obliquely disposed, ellipsoid, with the ends 

 quite strongly narrowed, containing two oil-drops, hyaline, 

 smooth, or at maturity very minutely roughened, about 8X15- 

 18;u; paraphyses rather stout, reaching a diameter of 7-8 m, 

 strongly curved or hooked at their apices and densely filled with 

 minute granules. 



