Peziza 231 



16. Peziza repanda Pers. Ic. Pict. Fung. 49. 1806. 



?Peziza micropus Pers. Ic. & Descr. Fung. 30. 1800. 



Peziza pallida Cooke & Peck; Cooke, Buff. Acad. Sci. 2: 288. 187.S. 



Peziza repanda amplispora Cooke «& Peck; Cooke, Bull. Buff. Acud. Sci. 2: 



288. 1875. 

 Peziza truncicomes Ger. ; Cooke, Mycographia 147. 1877. 

 Peziza amplispora Cooke, Mycographia 167. 1877. 

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



Peziza Stevensoniana Ellis; Rehm, Ascom. Lojk. 3. 1882. (as synonym.) 

 Ceopyxis pallidula Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 70. 1889. 

 Ceopyxis amplispora Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 71. 1889. 

 Discina repanda Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 100. 1889. 

 PUcaria repanda Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. V: 1007. 1896. 

 Ptistularia Stevensoniana Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. P: 1019. 1896. 

 Peziza varia f. lignicola Bres. Fungi Trid. 2: 76. 1898. 



Apothecia sessile or very short-stipitate, at first cup-shaped, 

 the margin even or crenate, externally white or whitish, ex- 

 panding and becoming repand, the margin remaining entire or 

 splitting, regular in outling or irregularly revolute, reaching a 

 diameter of 8-10 cm.; hymenium concave, becoming plane or 

 convex, pale-brown, becoming darker with age, even or convolute ; 

 stem short, stout, usually only a few mm. long or entirely wanting ; 

 asci cylindric or subcylindric, reaching a length of 225 n and a 

 diameter of 12-15 /x; spores ellipsoid, hyaline, smooth, 8-10 

 X 14-16 m; paraphyses slender, slightly enlarged above, yellowish 

 or brownish. 



On rotten logs or occasionally on soil or chip-piles. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to Iowa and Maryland; also in 

 Europe. 



Illustrations: Pers. Ic. Pict. pi. 20, f. 2; ? Pers. Ic. De-scr. 

 Fung. pi. 8, f. 3; Cooke, Mycographia pi. 62, f. 240; Bres. Fungi 

 Trid. pi. 189; Minn. Bot. Studies 4: pi. 15; Freeman, Minn. PI. 

 Diseases/. 64. 



One of the most conspicuous species on rotten logs in woods, 

 its variability in form at different ages probably accounting for 

 its numerous synonyms. When young it appears short-stipitate 

 but when mature the stem is inconspicuous or obsolete. 



17. Peziza vesiculosa Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 457, f. 1. 1789. 

 (Plate 29, fig. 2.) 



Scodellina vesiculosa S. F. Gray, Nac. Arrang. Brit. PI. 669. 1821. 

 ?Elvela cochleata Bolton, Hist. Fung. 3: 99 (in part). 1789. 

 Pustularia vesiculosa Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 329. 1869. 

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



