192 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Melvin R. Gilmore of the Museum of the American Indian, 

 New York City writes: The Scarlet Cup-Fungus, Sarcoscypha 

 coccinea (Jacq.) Sacc, is used medicinally by the Oneida, and 

 probably by the other tribes of the Iroquois Six Nations. In 

 such use this fungus is dried, pulverized, and applied as a styptic. 

 Most particularly this is the medicament used for application to 

 the navel of a newborn child when the umbilical cord is cut, and 

 is not healing well. In old times this pulverized fungus was 

 kept in place on the part under a bandage of soft-tanned deer- 

 skin. 



2. Plectania floccosa (Schw.) Seaver, comb. nov. (Plate 20, 



FIG. 1.) 



Peziza floccosa Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 172. 1832. 

 Geopyxis floccosa Morgan, Jour. Myc. 8: 188. 1902. 

 Sarcoscypha floccosa Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 156. 1889. 



Apothecia gregarious or occasionally cespitose, stipitate, in- 

 fundibuliform, with the margin usually strongly curved especially 

 in young plants, reaching a diameter of 5-8 mm. and a depth of 

 1 cm., externally clothed with very long, rigid, hyaline hairs 

 which give to the apothecium a very shaggy appearance; stem 

 slender, gradually expanding into the apothecium above, very 

 short or reaching a length of several cm., the length varying 

 with the depth at which the sticks on which the plants grow 

 are buried in the ground; hairs about 15-18 ^ in diameter at 

 the base, gradually tapering into a bristle-like apex, reaching a 

 length of more than 1 mm., septate, thick- walled ; asci cylindric 

 or subcylindric, rather abruptly narrowed into a long stem-like 

 base, reaching a length of 300-325 /x (not including the con- 

 stricted portion below) and a diameter of 20 /x at the apex; spores 

 1-seriate or with the ends partially overlapping, ellipsoid, with 

 the ends rather strongly narrowed, smooth, hyaline or slightly 

 yellowish, 15-17 X 20-35 ix\ paraphyses slender, slightly en- 

 larged above, reaching a diameter of 3 /x at their apices. 



On buried sticks in woods. 



Type locality: Nazareth, Pennsylvania. 



Distribution: Massachusetts to Iowa, Missouri and \'ir- 

 ginia. 



Illustrations: Grevillea 1: pi. l,f. 2; Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. 

 State Univ. Iowa 6: pi. 22 J. 1; Atkinson, Mush./. 222. 



Exsiccati: N. Am. Fungi 435; Rab. -Winter, Fungi Eu. 

 3171. 



