232 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Apothecia gregarious or more often densely cespitose, at 

 first closed and globose, gradually expanding and becoming 

 deep cup-shaped, regular in form or irregularly contorted, 

 sessile or with a very stout stem-like base, externally whitish 

 or yellowish, with minute wart-like pustules, reaching a diameter 

 of 7-8 cm.; hymenium pale-brown, paler than the outside of 

 the apothecium; asci cylindric or subcylindric; spores obliquely 

 1-seriate, ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 10-11 X 20-23 ^i; paraphyses 

 enlarged above granular within, subhyaline. 



On manure piles and heavily fertilized soil. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to Washington, California, Ala- 

 bama and probably throughout North America; also in Europe 



Illustrations: Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 457, f. 1; Boud. Ic 

 Myc. pi. 257; Cooke, Mycographia pi. 63, f. 242; Gill. Champ 

 Fr. Discom. pi. 44; Rab. Krypt.-Fl. V: 992, /. 1-4; Bull. Lab 

 Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa 6: pi. 16, f. 1; Sow. Engl. Fungi 

 pi. 4; Massee, Brit. Fungus-Fl. 4: 290, /. 22; Mycologia 7 

 pi. 155 (upper figure). 



Very common on manure piles and on account of its large 

 size conspicuous and attractive. It occurs less commonly on 

 soil in greenhouses and occasionally in richly manured gardens. 

 The cups are often regular in form or may become beautifully 

 contorted or crimped. 



18. Peziza fimeti (Fuckel) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Humaria fimeti Fuckel, Symb. Myc. Nacht. 1: 50. 1871. 



?Peziza fimetaria Schum. PL Saell. 2: 426. 1803. 



?Peziza chlorophysa Sacc. & D. Sacc. in Sacc. Syll. Fung. 18: 18. 1906. 



Apothecia scattered, sessile, or substipitate, at first sub- 

 globose, becoming expanded and reaching a diameter of 2 cm., 

 externally granulose, pallid-brown ; hymenium concave to nearly 

 plane, similar in color to the outside of the apothecium; asci 

 cylindric or subcylindric, reaching a length of 280 n and a 

 diameter of 18 m; spores ellipsoid, 8 X 16 /x; paraphyses abundant, 

 slender, reaching a diameter of 8 ^. 



On cow dung. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Kentucky to Iowa and Colorado; also in 



Europe. 



Illustration: Bres. Fungi Trid. pi. 192, f. 2. 



