Peziza 221 



Occurring on manure or heavily ferti- 

 lized soil. 

 Apothecia large; spores 10-11 X 



20-23 tx. 

 Apothecia small; spores 8 X 16 ^t. 

 Occurring on humus in woods. 

 Apothecia becoming discoid, closely adhering 



to the substratum. 20. P. dypeata. 



1. Peziza badia Pers. Obs. Myc. 2: 78. 1799. 



?Peziza cochleata L. Sp. PI. 1181. 1753. 



?Elvela cochleata Bolton, Fungi Halifax 3: 99 (in part). 1789. 



Scodellina badia S. F. Gray, Nat. Arrang. Brit. PI. 1: 669. 1821. 



Plicaria badia Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 327. 1869. 



Aleuria badia Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 43. 1879. 



Calactinia badia Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 48. 1907. 



Apothecia scattered, gregarious, or more commonly cespitose, 

 sessile, at first globose, expanding and becoming deep cup- 

 shaped, regular in form, or infolded and cochleate or auricular, 

 occasionally one-sided, rarely Otidea-Vike, externally varying from 

 tan-colored when young to dark-brown with age, whitish near 

 the base, pustulate, the pustules reddish or reddish-purple, 

 becoming dark with age, reaching a diameter of 10 cm.; hy- 

 menium usually concave, dark-brown; asci tapering below and 

 often forked at the base, cylindric above; spores 1-seriate^ 

 usually obliquely arranged and often irregularly crowded, ellip- 

 soid, becoming sculptured, hyaline or faintly colored, 8-10 

 X 17-23 m; spore-sculpturing consisting of rather coarse warts 

 or short interrupted ridges; paraphyses rather strongly enlarged 

 above, yellowish. 



On the ground in deciduous woods and open places. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to Oregon, California and Alabama; 

 also in Europe. Probably widely distributed. 



Illustrations: Bolton, Fungi Halifax, pi. 99; Boud. Ic. 

 Myc. pi. 283; Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa 6: pi. 14, 

 f. 2; pi. 15, f. 1; Cooke, Mycographia pi. 57, f. 226; Gill. Champ. 

 Fr. Discom. pi. 42; Mycologia 7: pi. 155 (lower figure); (?) Sow. 

 Engl. Fungi pi. 5. 



ExsiccATi: N. Am. Fungi 981. 



The species is rather common and often abundant. 



