318 The North American Cup-Fuxgi 



This species has been reported from Japan by S. Imai (Bot. 

 Mag. Tokyo 52: 362. 1938.). The conibination Plectania 

 protracta shoukl be attributed to Gehn (1937) not Iniai (1938). 



Add the note: Olov E. V. Gelin (Kongb Xorske Vidensk. 

 Selsk. 10: 194. 1937.) states: "In early spring 1851 Elias Petrus 

 Fries had the great pleasure of finding a beautiful spring fungus 

 at Gottsunda in the neighbourhood of Uppsala. In the same 

 year his father Elias Fries, the great mycologist, described the 

 fungus in Novarum Symbolarum Mycologicarum Mantissa under 

 the name of Peziza protracta. Another interesting novelty is 

 also described in the same work, viz. Peziza cruciata, collected 

 by Th. M. Fries from the same locality, with the note "aestatis 

 fine". The specimen, deposited in the Uppsala Botanical 

 Museum, is typical P. protracta, and the date of collection must 

 be a mistake. Seaver (1928) also considered P. cruciata as 

 synonymous with P. protracta. Since the proposal, in 1869, of 

 the genus Plectania by Fuckel, this fungus should be named 

 Plectania protracta (Fries) Gelin, comb, nov., and not Plectania 

 hiemalis (Nees et Bernst.) Seaver. This latter combination is 

 due to a deplorable mistake by Seaver (1928) as to the year of 

 publication of Fries' Nov. Symb. Myc. I may here refer to the 

 works of Heim (1925) and Seaver (1928) for the complete 

 synonymy." The name Plectania protracta (Fries) Gelin should 

 therefore be substituted for the name Plectania hiemalis. 



194. Doubtful Species. 



Add: Sarcoscypha imperialis (Peck) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 157. 

 1889. Peziza imperialis Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 29: 

 54. 1878. pi. l,f. 13-15. The description suggests Scodellina 

 grandis except that the spores are too small. Nothing more is 

 known of the species. 



194. Bulgaria. 



Add the note: The genus Bulgaria was established by Fries, 

 as indicated in the early part of this work, several species now- 

 regarded as unrelated having been originally included since they 

 all represented species with a more or less gelatinous apothecial 

 structure. The first two of these were Bulgaria globosa with 

 ellipsoid hyaline spores, and Bulgaria inqiiinans with unequal- 

 sided, colored spores. Also, the former has an operculate ascus 

 and the latter an inoperculate, and under present day classifica- 

 tions belong to different sections of the I^iscomycetes. 



