Peziza 223 



tured, 12-14 X 25-27 /x; spore-sculpturing consisting of minute 

 warts; paraphyses stout, strongly enlarged above where they 

 reach a diameter of 10-12 fi, filled with a mass of dark-brown 

 coloring matter which often separates in such a way as to give 

 the tip of the paraphyses a septate or muriform appearance, 

 hyaline below, often spirally twisted like the ascus. 



On damp soil. 



Type locality: Alabama. 



Distribution: Alabama and Washington. 



Illustration: Cooke, Mycographia pi. 20, f. 79. 



Except in habitat and mode of attachment, resembling a 

 Psilopezia. 



4. Peziza succosa Berk. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. I. 6: 358. 1841. 



Aleuria succosa Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 45. 1879. 

 Otidea succosa Thiim. Mycoth. Univ. 1411. 1879. 

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

 Plicaria succosa Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. I'': 1016. 1896. 



Apothecia gregarious or scattered, sessile, at first hemispheric, 

 expanding and becoming shallow cup-shaped or more rarely sub- 

 discoid, regular in outline or irregularly contorted, the margin 

 even or occasionally more or less lobed, externally whitish or 

 yellowish with a slight shade of olive, reaching a diameter of 

 3-4 cm. ; hymenium concave or occasionally nearly plane, even, 

 brown, becoming darker with age, often with an olivaceous tint 

 apparently from the spores which have dusted out over its 

 surface; asci cylindric or subcylindric, reaching a length of 

 200-225 M and a diameter of 12-15 m, 8-spored; spores obliquely 

 1-seriate, ellipsoid, usually containing two distinct oil-drops, 

 hyaline or very faintly yellowish (olivaceous in mass), finally 

 becoming sculptured, 8-12 X 16-20 /x; spore-sculpturing con- 

 sisting of rather conspicuous warts 1-2 ju in diameter; paraphyses 

 slender, septate, enlarged above, filled with yellowish coloring 

 matter. 



On damp soil in woods. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to Iowa and Wisconsin; also in 



Europe. 



Illustrations: Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. I. 6: pi. 10, f. 5-7; 

 Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. pi. 46; Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 284; Cooke, 

 Mycographia pi. 63, J. 243; Pat. Tab. Fung. /. 166; PhiU. Brit. 



