Peziza 219 



bright-yellow or becoming yellowish-brown with age; stem about 

 1 cm. in diameter and scarcely exceeding 5 mm. in length, 

 irregularly corrugated at the base, the flesh thick and brittle; 

 asci cylindric or subcylindric, attenuated at the base, reaching a 

 length of 400 m and a diameter of 20 /x, beconr'ng twisted, 8- 

 spored; spores ellipsoid, smooth, containing one large oil-drop 

 and several smaller ones, becoming minutely sculptured, 10-15 

 X 27-35 m; spore-sculpturing consisting of minute warts or 

 occasionally minute ridges or indistinct reticulations; spore 

 appendages consisting of truncate protuberances, one at either 

 end of the spore; paraphyses slender, septate, branched, slightly 

 enlarged above, filled with orange granules. 



Rare on the ground in coniferous woods. 



Type locality: France. 



Distribution: New York to Maryland; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Bres. Fungi Trid. pi. 44; Bull. Soc. Myc. 

 Fr. 3: pi. 12; Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 253; Rab. Krypt.-Fl. V: 922, 

 /. 5. 



38. PEZIZA (Dill.) L. Sp. PI. 1180. 1753. 



Plicaria Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 325. 1869 (in part). 

 Pustiilaria Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 328. 1869 (in part). 

 Otidea Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 329. 1869 (in part). 

 Peziza § GaJactinia Cooke, Mycographia 253. 1879. 

 Galactinia Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 106. 1889. 

 Aleuria Authors, not Fuckel Symb. Myc. 325. 1869. 

 Heteroplegtna Clements, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 92. 1903. 

 Disciolis Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 42. 1907. 

 Pseudotis Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 52. 1907. 

 Pachyella Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 50. 1907. 



Apothecia medium sized or large, usually not less than 1 cm. 

 in diameter and occasionally reaching a diameter of 15-20 cm., 

 usually cup-shaped or occasionally discoid or repand, the color 

 variable; asci cylindric to clavate, usually 8-spored; spores, 

 ellipsoid, hyaUne or faintly colored, smooth or sculptured; spore- 

 sculpturing consisting of minute papillae to rather coarse warts 

 or short interrupted ridges, never truly reticulate; paraphyses 

 variable. 



Type species, Peziza cochleata L. 



Spores at maturity sculptured; spore-sculpturing vary- 

 ing from minute papillae to coarse warts. 

 Hymenium becoming brown, brownish-black or 

 olivaceous. 



