Plectania 191 



to scarlet; hairs when present hyaHne or very slightly yellowish; 

 asci 8-spored; spores ellipsoid, hyaline or subhyaline, smooth; 

 paraphyses filiform and slender. 



Type species, Peziza coccinea Scop. 



Apothecia large, 2-3 cm. in diameter. 1. P. coccinea. 

 Apothecia rarely exceeding a diameter of 1 cm. 



Hairs long, bristly and very conspicuous. 2. P. floccosa. 

 Hairs inconspicuous, consisting of delicate tomentum. 



Tomentum scant; spores 10-12 X 20-22 /x. 3. P. occidciitalis. 



Tomentum abundant ; spores 13-16 X 35-50 /x. 4. P. hiemalis. 



1. Plectania coccinea (Scop.) Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 324. 1869. 

 (Plate 19, fig. 1.) 



Elvela coccinea Scop. Fl. Car. 2: 479. 1772. 



Peziza coccinea Jacq. Fl. Austr. 2: pi. 163. 1774. 



Peziza epidendra Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 467, f. 3. 1789. 



Peziza poculiformis HofTm. Veg. Crypt. 2: 27. 1790. 



?Peziza pulcherrima Raf. Med. Rep. II. 5: 362. 1808. 



Macroscyphus coccineus S. F. Gray, Nat. Arrang. Brit. PI. 1 : pi. 672. 1821. 



Lachnea coccinea Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 66. 1880. 



Sarcoscypha coccinea Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 154. 1889. 



Peziza Dudleyi Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 47: 23. 1894. 



Geopyxis coccinea Massee, Brit. Fungus-Fl. 4: 377. 1895. 



Apothecia rather deep cup-shaped or infundibuliform, stipi- 

 tate or rarely subsessile, the margin of the cup usually strongly 

 incurved, externally nearly white and more or less floccose with 

 hyaline, flexuous mycelial hairs; hymenium deeply concave, 

 scarlet, fading when dry; stem stout, 4-5 mm. thick and of 

 variable length, often 2-3 cm. long and again almost wanting, 

 the length of the stem varying according to the depth at which 

 the sticks are buried ; asci very long, cylindric, gradually tapering 

 into a stem-like base, reaching a length of 400-500 /x and a 

 diameter of 12-14 ju; spores mostly 1-seriate, long-ellipsoid, 

 often containing two large oil-drops and numerous small ones, 

 10-12 X 26-40 /x; paraphyses slightly enlarged above, containing 

 numerous red granules. 



On buried or partially buried sticks, early spring. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to Washington and West Virginia; 

 also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Bond. Ic. Myc. pi. 322, 323; Bull. Herb. Fr. 

 pi. 467, f. 3; Cooke, Mycographia pi. 25, f. 95; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 

 V: 195, /. 155, A-B; Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. pi. 58, f. 1; 

 Hoffm. Veg. Crypt. 2: pi. 7, J. 5; Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. pi. l,f. 1. 



