Geopyxis 211 



consisting of coarse warts; paraphyses cylindric or slightlv 

 clavate, reaching a diameter of 6-8 ijl at their apices. 



On soil in woods or more rarely on rotten wood. 



Type locality: Poughkeepsie, New York. 



Distribution: Connecticut to Iowa and Virginia. 



Illustrations: Cooke, Mycographia pi. 28, f. 110 and pi. 29, 

 f. 113; Grevillea 3: pi. 44, f. 226; Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. .State 

 Univ. Iowa 6: pi. 21, J. 1. 



Exsiccati: N. Am. Fungi 1269; Fungi Columb. 1307; Rab.- 

 Winter, Fungi Eu. 325 (in part). 



This and the preceding are frequently collected in mid- 

 summer. 



14. Paxina olivacea (Clements) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Phlehoscyphus oUvacens Clements, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 93. 1003. 

 Acetabula olivacea .Sacc. & D. Sacc. in Sacc. -Syll. Fung. 18: L?. 1906. 



Apothecia cespitose, cup-shaped, reaching a diameter of 4-5 

 cm. and a depth of 2-2.5 cm., margin becoming lacerate, exter- 

 nally brownish-olivaceous, furfuraceous-tuberculate; hymenium 

 greenish-olivaceous; stem 1-2-sulcate or lacunose, furfuraceous, 

 reaching a length of 2-2.5 cm. and a diameter of 1.5-2 cm.; asci 

 cylindric, short-stipitate, reaching a length of 350 /j. and a 

 diameter of 14 /x; spores 1-seriate, ellipsoid, becoming sculptured, 

 hyaline, 8 X 19 /x; spore-sculpturing consisting of minute warts; 

 paraphyses slender, septate, hyaline, reaching a diameter of 

 3-4 fjL at their apices. 



On moist soil. 



Type locality: Jack Brook, Minnehaha, Colorado. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Doubtful Species 



Macropodia .Schweinilzii Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 160. 1889; Peziza tomentosa 

 Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 171. 1832; Fiickelina Schweinitzii Kuntze, 

 Rev. Gen. PI. 2: 852. 1791. The identity of this species is uncertain. 



Plectania rimosa Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 100. 1903. This may be 

 Pa.viJia Coriuni. No specimen has been seen. 



35. GEOPYXIS (Pers.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 63. 1889. 



Peziza § Geopyxis Pers. Myc. Eu. 1: 224. 1822. 



Pustularia Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 328. 1869. Noc Pustularia Roussel, 1806. 



Apothecia medium sized, usually deep cup-shaped, externally 

 pustulate, stipitate; stem usually slender and short; asci 8- 



