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236. Insert: 



2. Sarcosphaera ammophila (Dur. & Lev.) comb, 

 nov. (Plate 64.) 



Peziza ammophila Dur. & Lev.; Durieu, Expl. Sci. Alger. Hot. Altai 10. 1868. 

 Peziza funerata Cooke, Grevillea 6: 142. 1878. 

 Geopyxis ammophila Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 70. 1889. 

 Sarcosphaera funerata Seaver, Mycologia 22: 216. 19,-iO. 



Apothecia scattered, at first entirely immersed in the sand 

 appearing as holes in the ground with the irregular or slightly 

 star-shaped margin appearing above the surface of the sandy 

 soil, nearly globose and reaching a diameter of 2-3 cm. extended 

 below into a stem-like base made up of a column of sand held 

 together with fungus m\celium, the exterior of the cup pitted 

 with particles of encrusted sand; hymenium exposed at maturity, 

 dull umber brown; asci cylindric, reaching a length of 275 ^ and 

 a diameter of 12-14 /i, 8-spored; spores ellipsoid, smooth, 8-9 

 X 16-18 m; paraphyses slender, slightly enlarged above, clinging 

 together and not very distinct. 



In sandy soil. 



Type locality: Algeria. 



Distribution: Florida to California and Michigan; probably 

 world wide in sand dunes. 



Illustrations: Cooke, Mycographia pi. 107, f. 380; Myco- 

 logia 22: pi. 22, f. 1.; 24: /?/. 14; Fl. Alger, pi. 28, f. 2; Zeits. 

 Pilzk. Darmst. 15: pi. 2. 



In 1878, M. C. Cooke described Peziza funerata from Gaines- 

 ville, Florida, with the usual brief Latin diagnosis and the English 

 note: "immersed in sandy soil." This was later illustrated by 

 Cooke in Mycographia pi. 107, f. 380. 



So far as the writer knows, nothing more was known or heard 

 of this species in this country for nearly fifty years. In 1921, 

 Dr. H. C. Beardslee sent me a collection of this Discomycete 

 obtained at New Smyrna, Florida, with the following notes: 

 "The plant grows in the bare sand in cultivated orange groves. 

 It is immersed in the sand and only the irregularly star-shaped 

 opening shows about like this (diagram). The shape is about 

 as in my diagram roughly globose with the mouth constricted 

 and somewhat star-shaped. Apparently it is at first closed and 

 the mouth opens as it develops, as the interior is entirely free 

 from sand unless it is brushed in by the rain. The color is dull 

 umber throughout." 



