206 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Fuckelina villosa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 852. 1891. 

 ?Macropodia nrceolata Clements, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 91. 1903. 



Apothecia scattered or gregarious, reaching a diameter of 

 2-3 cm. and a depth of 1 cm., externally grayish or densely 

 whitish-tomentose; hymenium darker than the exterior of the 

 apothecium, light-colored when young, becoming brownish with 

 age; stem slender, reaching a length of 3-4 cm. and a diameter 

 of 3-4 mm. at the base, gradually tapering upward toward the 

 base of the cup where it is reduced to about 2 mm., sharply 

 distinguished from the apothecium, even or irregularly and 

 sparingly lacunose, tomentose; tomentum consisting of conical 

 bunches of hairs which cling together in fascicles, the individual 

 hairs made up of a chain of loosely united, hyaline cells which 

 are strongly swollen in the center and contracted at the point 

 of union; asci cylindric or slightly clavate above, reaching a 

 length of 250-275 ix and a diameter of 17-20 m, gradually tapering 

 below into a stem-like base; spores 1-seriate, obliquely disposed 

 in the ascus, narrow-ellipsoid to fusoid, smooth, containing one 

 to three large oil-drops and numerous smaller ones, 12-14 

 X 25-30 M, paraphyses gradually enlarged above where they 

 reach a diameter of 8 //. 



On the ground in woods. 



Type Locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Massachusetts to Minnesota and Colorado 

 (probably throughout North America) ; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. pi. 167; Bolton, Hist. 

 Fung. 3: pi. 96; Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 239; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. V: 

 186,/. 150, G~L; Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. pi. 31; Hedw. Descr. 

 2: pi. 19, f. 1-4; Pers. Obs. Myc. pi. l,f. 2; Underw. Molds Mild. 

 & Mush. pi. 4,f. 9-10; Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa 6: 

 pl. 19, f. 1. 



Exsiccati: Clements, Crypt. Form. Colo. 297. 



Rather common in midsummer. 



8. Paxina subclavipes (Phill. & Ellis) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza subclavipes Phill. & Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 985. 1887. 

 ?Peziza brachypus Ellis & Ev. Jour. Myc. 4: 55. 1888. 

 ?Ceopyxis brachypus Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 68. 1889. 

 Elvela macropus brevis Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 29: 74. 1902. 

 Macropodia subclavipes Rehm, Ann. Myc. 2: 354. 1904. 



Apothecia gregarious, reaching a diameter of 2 cm. and a 

 depth of about 1 cm., externally cinereous to yellowish or more 



