332 The North American Cup-Fungi 



234. Insert: 



21. Peziza pseudoclypeata sp. nov. (Plate 62). 



Apothecia irregularly discoid, often umbilicate and with more 

 or less radiating convolutions, reaching a diameter of 3-4 cm., 

 the flesh brittle externally pallid; hymenium chestnut-brown; 

 asci c>'lindric above, tapering below into a long stem-like base, 

 reaching a length of 400-450 /x and a diameter of 18-22 m, 

 8-spored; spores ellipsoid 12-14 X 20-24 ^t, containing two oil- 

 drops, sculptured, the sculpturing consisting of very long blunt 

 spines or knobs, h>aline or pale \ellowish; paraphyses clavate 

 denseh' filled with granules 8-10 fx in diameter. 



Apotheciis subdiscoidiis, iimbilicatis, 3-4 cm. diam.; hymenio brunneo; 

 ascis cylindraceis, stipitatis fras^ilibus, 18-22 X 400-450 m, 8-sporis; sporis 

 ellipsoideis asperatis, subhyalinis; paraphysibus, clavato-incrassatis, 8-10 yu 

 diam. 



On well decayed sugar maple log. 

 Type locality: Cleveland, Ohio. 

 Distribution: Known only from the t\pe locality. 



22. Peziza Waltersii sp. nov. (Plate 63). 



Apothecia gregarious, subturbinate, dull yellow throughout, 

 reaching a diameter of 2.7 cm. the hymenium slightly depressed, 

 in the center a little paler than the outside of the apothecium; 

 stem short, stout and attenuated below, the substance of the 

 apothecia very soft, shrinking much in drying; asci cylindric, 

 reaching a length of 340 /u and a diameter of 15 ju, 8-spored; 

 spores ellipsoid, 1-seriate, 10 X 20 ju becoming rather coarsely 

 tuberculate; paraphyses enlarged above filled with granules, 

 reaching a diameter of 5 /x. 



Apotheciis gregariis, subturbinatis, flaviis; hymenio leniter concavo; 

 ascis subcylindraceis, 8-sporis, 15 X 340 yu; sporis eUipsoideis, tuberculatis, 

 10 X 20 n; paraphysibus clavato-incrassatis, 8-10 /x diam. 



On much rotted wood of sugar maple and beech in beech- 

 maple-hemlock forest in early June. 



Type locality: Cleveland, Ohio. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



This species is named in honor of Maurice B. \\' alters who 

 has collected it several years in succession on the same decaying 

 log. 



235. Sarcosphaeria coronaria (Plate 46). 



Range extended to California (E. E. Morse & H. E. Parks), 

 and Oregon (J. R. Kienholz). 



