Plectania 193 



The hairy cups of this species are rather common in woods 

 in early spring. 



3. Plectania occidentalis (Schw.) Seaver, comb. nov. (Plate 

 20, fk;. 2; 45, fk;. 23.) 



Peziza occidentalis Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 171. 1832. 

 Peziza hesperidea Cooke & Peck, Grevillea 1: 5. 1872. 

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

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

 Geopyxis hesperidea Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 63. 1889. 



Apothecia gregarious or cespitose, shallow cup-shaped to 

 discoid, stipitate, externally whitish, reaching a diameter of 1 

 cm.; hymenium usually concave, bright-red, almost scarlet; 

 stem varying in length according to the depth at which the 

 sticks on which the plants grow are buried in the ground but 

 often reaching a length of 2-3 cm. and a diameter of 2 mm.; 

 asci cylindric or subcylindric, reaching a diameter of 15-18 /x 

 at the apex, tapering below into a long stem-like base; spores 

 1-seriate, parallel with the ascus or oblique and with the ends 

 slightly overlapping, ellipsoid, usually with two oil-drops one in 

 either end which are often surrounded with smaller oil-drops 

 and granules, hyaline or slightly yellowish, 10-12 X 20-22 m; 

 paraphyses slender, slightly thickened above, reaching a diameter 

 of 3-4 jj. at their apices. 



On buried or partially buried sticks in wood. 



Type locality: Muskingum, Ohio. 



Distribution: Connecticut to Iowa, Kansas and Louisiana. 



Illustrations: Grevillea 1: pi. l,f. 1; Cooke, Mycographia 

 pi. 50, f. 195; Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa 6: pi. 21, 

 f. 2. 



ExsiccATi: N. Am. Fungi 436. 



Rather common but not abundant in woods in midsummer. 



4. Plectania hiemalis (Nees & Bernst.) Seaver, comb. nov. 



(Plate 19. fk.. 2.) 



Microstoma hiemale Nees & Bernst.; Milde, Bot. Zeit. 10: 208. 1852. 

 Peziza cniciata Fries, Nov. Symb. Myc. 229. 1855. 

 Peziza prosirata Fries, Nov. Symb. Myc. 230. 1855. 

 Peziza mirabilis Borszcz. Beit. Pflanzenkunde 10: 61. 1857. 

 Sclerotiiiia baccata Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 331. 1869. 

 Anthopeziza Winteri Wettst. \'erh. Zool.-Bot. Wien 35: 383. 1886. 

 Sarcoscypha alpina Ellis & Ev. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 281. 1897. 

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



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