COOKEINA 187 



On soil in coniferous or mixed woods. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Connecticut to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin; 

 also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Bond. Ic. Myc. pi. 328; Cooke, Mycographia 

 pi. 105, f. 376; Pat. Tab. Fung. /. 480. 



Doubtful Species 



Otidea oblecta (Schw.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 98. 1889; Peziza ohtecta Schw. 

 Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 170. 1832. The identity of this species is 

 uncertain. 



30. COOKEINA Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 849. 1891. 



Peziza § Trichoscypha Cooke, Mycographia 252. 1879. 



Triclwscypha Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 160. 1889. Not Trichoscypha Hooker, 



1862. 

 Pilocratera P. Henn. in Engler, Bot. Jahr. 14: 363. 1892. 



Apothecia stipitate or substipitate, bright-colored, some shade 

 of red or yellow (especially the hymenium), externally hairy or 

 tomentose or occasionally pruinose, the substance tough, not 

 shrinking much in drying; hairs when present fasciculate; asci 

 cylindric or subcylindric, usually with an abrupt stem at the 

 base, 4-8-spored; spores hyaline or subhyaline, ellipsoid to fusoid, 

 usually striate, the striations consisting of light and dark bands 

 extending the length of the spore; paraphyses usually very 

 slender. 



Type species, Peziza Tricholoma Mont. 



Apothecia clothed with well-developed hairs. 



Hairs long and conspicuous, covering the outside of 



the apothecium. 1. C. Tricholoma. 



Hairs short and inconspicuous, mostly near the margin. 



Asci 8-spored. 2. C. sulcipes. 



Asci 4-spored. 3. C. tetraspora. 



Apothecia pruinose but with no well-developed hairs. 4. C. Colensoi. 



1. Cookeina Tricholoma (Mont.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 849. 

 1891. (Plate 18, fig. 2.) 



Peziza Tricholoma Mont. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 2: 77. 1834. 

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

 Trichoscypha Tricholoma Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 160. 1889. 

 Pilocratera Tricholoma P. Henn. in Engler, Bot. Jahr. 14: 364. 1892. 

 Peziza striispora Ellis & Ev. Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa 4: 69. 



1896. 

 Sarcoscypha striispora Sacc. Syll. Fung. 14: 754. 1899. 



