210 The North American Cup-Fungi 



blunt, the length very variable; asci cylindric to clavate, reaching 

 a length of 300-325 ix and a diameter of 15 m; spores obliquely 

 1 -seriate, with the ends overlapping, fusoid to fusiform, becoming 

 sculptured when mature, containing two large oil-drops, 10-12 

 X 25-33 m; spore-sculpturing consisting of coarse warts; pa- 

 raphyses clavate, reaching a diameter of 7-8 m at their apices. 



On rich soil or more rarely on rotten wood. 



Type locality: Pennsylvania. 



Distribution: New York to Wisconsin and Iowa. 



Illustrations: Cooke, Mycographia pi. 28, f. 109; Grevillea 

 3: ^/. 44 J, 225; Jour. Linn. Soc. 31 : pJ. 16, f. 19. 



13. Paxina fusicarpa (Ger.) Seaver, comb. nov. (Plate 25, 

 FIG. 1.) 



Peziza fusicarpa Ger. Bull. Torrey Club 4: 64. 1873. 

 Pezizapubida Berk. & Curt. Grevillea 3: 153. 1875. 

 Macropodia puhida Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 159. 1889. 

 Lachnea fusicarpa Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 172. 1889. 

 FuckeJina piibida Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 852. 1891. 

 Scutellinia fusicarpa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 869. 1891. 

 SepuUaria aspera Clements, Bot. Surv. Nebr. 4: 12. 1895. 

 Lachnea aspera Sacc. & Sydow in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 14: 757. 1899. 

 Peziza Morgani Massee; Morgan, Jour. Myc. 8: 190. 1902. 

 Macropodia fusicarpa Durand, Jour. Myc. 12: 29. 1906. 



Apothecia gregarious or cespitose, rather deep cup-shaped, 

 reaching a diameter of 2-3 cm. and a depth of 1 cm., externally 

 brown and densely clothed with a soft tomentum; hymenium 

 creamy-white when fresh, becoming brown when old or in drying; 

 stem short, rarely exceeding 5 mtn. in length and about 3-5 mm. 

 in diameter, nearly even or in some cases deeply lacunose, 

 clothed with tomentum similar to that on the outside of the 

 apothecium, often immersed so that the apothecia appear to be 

 sessile; tomentum consisting of thin-walled, flexuous, sparingly 

 septate, brown hairs 12-15 m in diameter and of nearly uniform 

 thickness throughout their entire length, or occasionally enlarged 

 at the base, slightly roughened on the outside, ends blunt; 

 asci cylindric or clavate above, reaching a diameter of 20-22 ^ 

 and a length of 300-325 /x; spores 1-seriate, diagonally disposed 

 and with the ends strongly overlapping, or becoming partially 

 2-seriate above, hyaline or slightly yellowish, fusiform, con- 

 taining two large oil-drops, often slightly curved or unequal- 

 sided, 10-12 X 30-45 ju, becoming sculptured; spore-sculpturing 



