190 The North American Cup-Fungi 



4. Cookeina Colensoi (Berk.) Seaver, Mycologia 5: 191. 1913. 

 (Plate 17, fig. 3.) 



Peziza Colensoi Berk, in Hooker's F"l. New Zealand 2: 200. 1855. 



Peziza ahUicolor Berk. Proc. Linn. Soc. 13: 176. 1873. 



Phillipsia Venezuelae Berk. & Curt.; Cooke, Mycographia 120. 1876. 



Geopyxis aluticolor Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 64. 1889. 



Sarcoscypha Colensoi Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 157. 1889. 



Peziza Venezuelae Massee, Jour. Linn. Soc. 31: 473. 1896. 



Apothecia stipitate or substipitate, shallow cup-shaped, reach- 

 ing a diameter of 1-2 cm. and a depth of about 5 rnm., dried 

 specimens pale-yellow (probably much brighter when fresh), 

 marked with concentric rings about the margin, externally 

 covered with loose cells which sometimes approach rudimentary 

 hairs but with no well-developed hairs, strongly wrinkled when 

 dry especially near the base of the apothecium; stem very short 

 and sometimes almost wanting, often not more than 1 mm. in 

 length, never long as in other species; asci cylindric above, 

 reaching a length of 400-475 /x and a diameter of 20 ix, gradually 

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

 lapping, fusoid, with the ends quite strongly narrowed, con- 

 taining one or two large oil-drops and granular within, the 

 striations consisting of several broad, longitudinal bands ex- 

 tending the length of the spore, 12-15 X 30-40 /x; paraphyses 

 filiform, scarcely enlarged above. 



On wood and bark. 



Type locality: New Zealand. 



Distribution: West Indies; also in New Zealand, Australia 

 and Africa. 



Illustrations: Hooker's Fl. New Zealand 2: pi. 105, f. 5; 

 Cooke, Mycographia pi. 50, f. 19S; pi. 52, f. 206; Jour. Linn. Soc. 

 31: pi. 16, f. 4-5; Hedwigia 39: p/. 11, J. 21; Mycologia S: pi. 89 

 (upper figure) and pi. 90, f. S. 



31. PLECTANIA Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 323. 1869. 



Microstoma Milde, Bot. Zeit. 10: 208. 1852. Not Microstoma Bruch. 



1846. 

 Anthopeziza Wettst. Verh. Zool.-Bot. Wien 35: 383. 1886. 

 Sarcoscypha Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 153. 1889. 



Apothecia at first subglobose, expanding but with the margin 

 often incurved and even or laciniate, usually stipitate but with 

 the stem very variable in length or sometimes almost wanting, 

 externally more or less hairy; hymenium bright-colored; inclined 



