214 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York and California; also in Europe. 

 Illustrations: Holmsk. Otia 2: pi. 8; Bond. Ic. Myc. 

 pi. 336. 



4. Geopyxis vulcanalis (Peck) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 65. 1889. 



?Peziza majalis Fries, Nova Acta Soc. Sci. Upsal. III. 1: 120. 1855. 



Peziza vulcanalis Peck; Coulter, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr. 6: 792. 1873. 



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



Geopyxis pulchra Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 65. 1889. 



Phleboscyphus radicatus Clements, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 94. 1903. 



Sarcoscypha dawsonensis Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 33: 220. 1906. 



Acetabula radicata Sacc. Syll. Fung. 18: 13. 1906. 



Apothecia gregarious, short-stipitate, subinfundibuliform with 

 the margin usually incurved and crenate, externally covered 

 with an evanescent, pruinose or subtomentose coat, especially 

 when young, often becoming entirely smooth with age, whitish 

 or yellowish-white, darker when naked, reaching a diameter of 

 1-2 cm. and about half as deep; stem 1-2 mm. thick and of 

 variable length up to 5 mm. but often so short that the apothecia 

 appear sessile; hymenium pale-orange; asci cylindric above, 

 tapering below into a long stem-like base, reaching a length of 

 275 m and a diameter of 15-17 ^ at the broadest point; spores 

 ellipsoid, with the ends strongly narrowed, 8-10X14-18^1 

 paraphyses slightly thickened above, reaching a diameter of 

 4 M at their apices. 



Nestling among mosses and leaf-mould in coniferous woods. 



Type locality: Snake River, Wyoming. 



Distribution: New York to Wyoming and Colorado. 



Illustration: Cooke, Mycographia pi. 74, J. 285. 



Exsiccati: Clements, Crypt. Form. Colo. 126 (as Phlebo- 

 scyphus radicatus Clements). 



Doubtful and Excluded Species 



Geopyxis nebulosa (Cooke) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 70. 1889; Peziza nebiilosa 

 Cooke, Mycographia 163. 1877. This is an inoperculate species and should 

 be referred to the genus Ciboria. 



Geopyxis nebulosoides Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 32: 80. 1905. Probably 

 not distinct from Geopyxis nebulosa. 



Geopyxis cinerascens (Rehm) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 18: 14. 1906; Tarzetta 

 cinerascens Rehm, Ann. Myc. 2: 352. 1904. This is also undoubtedly a 

 Cihoria. 



Geopyxis verruculosa (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 68. 1889; 



