Paxina 207 



rarely olivaceous-brown, rough, the roughenings consisting of 

 bunches of hairs; hymenium darker than the outside of the 

 apothecium, brownish; stem slender, even or nearly so, reaching 

 an extreme length of 1 cm. but often not over a few mm., about 

 2 mm. thick, covered like the outside of the apothecium with 

 tufts of hairs; hairs dining together in conical clumps, each 

 individual hair made up of a chain of loosely united cells the 

 cells swollen in the center but contracted at the point of union, 

 hyaline or faintly yellowish; asci cylindric, reaching a length 

 of 250 M and a diameter of 15 m; spores 1-seriate or slightly 

 crowded near the apex of the ascus, ellipsoid, simple, containing 

 one large oil-drop and occasionally a few smaller ones, smooth, 

 hyaline, 9-10 X 18-23 m; paraphyses filiform, about 3 /x in di- 

 ameter below, enlarged above where they reach a diameter of 

 7 fx, yellowish-brown. 



On the ground in woods. 



Type locality: Newfield, New Jersey. 



Distribution : New York to Iowa, Texas and South Carolina. 



ExsiccATi: Rav. Fungi Am. Exsicc. 760 (as Peziza Corium); 

 N. Am. Fungi 984 (as Peziza Corium). 



9. Paxina Dupainii (Boud.) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Acetabula Dupainii Boud. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 14: 17. 1898. 

 Ehela Fanlknerae Copeland, Ann. Myc. 2: 509. 1904. 

 Cyathipodia Dupainii Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 39. 1907. 



Apothecia gregarious, cup-shaped, regular or occasionally 

 compressed, reaching a diameter of 2-3 cm. and a depth of 

 1 cm., externally rough, the roughenings consisting of conical 

 tufts of hairs, yellowish to yellowish-brown; hymenium dark- 

 brown to blackish; stem slightly swollen near the base and 

 narrowed upward toward the base of the apothecium, yellowish, 

 lighter than the outside of the apothecium; asci cylindric above, 

 gradually tapering below, reaching a length of 300-325 /x and a 

 diameter of 15 m; spores ellipsoid, containing one large oil-drop 

 which is nearly as large as the small diameter of the spore, 

 hyaline, 12-15 X 20-23 m; paraphyses strongly enlarged above 

 where they reach a diameter of 8-10 ju. 



On the ground. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Wisconsin; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 14: pi. 3, f. 1; Boud. 

 Ic. Myc. pi. 242; Ann. Myc. 2: pi. 12, f. 6-7. 



