194 The North American Cup-Fungi 



1. Tapesia fusca (Pers.) Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 302. 1869. 



Pezizafusca Pers. Obs. Myc. 1: 29. 1796. 



Peziza subiculata Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 174. 1832. 



Peziza griseopulveracea Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 174. 1832. 



Mollisia fusca Karst. Myc. Fenn. 1: 207. 1871. 



?Peziza vincta Cooke & Peck, Grevillea 1: 6. 1872. 



Tapesia cinerella Rehm, Hedwigia 21: 102. 1882. 



Tapesia vincta Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 372. 1889. 



Tapesia subiculata Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 380. 1889. 



Tapesia griseopulveracea Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 380. 1889. 



Tapesia Rhois Fairman, Proc. Rochester Acad. Sci. 3: 216. 1900. 



Apothecia seated on a widely, densely efifused subiculum 

 of brown filaments, scattered, or gregarious, at first urn-shaped, 

 black, finally expanding and becoming cinereous-brown, or 

 cinereous-yellow, reaching a diameter of 1 mm.; hymenium 

 pallid-cinereous to pale-yellowish; asci fusoid-clavate, reaching 

 a length of 55-68 n and a diameter of 6-8 ju, 8-spored; spores 

 fusoid, usually simple, occasionally doubtfully 1 -septate, 2-3 X 

 12-14 )u; paraphyses filiform, 2-4 n in diameter. 



On wood and bark of various kinds. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to Oregon and North Carolina; 

 probably widely distributed. 



Illustrations: Rab. Krypt.-FI. P: 573./. 1-5: E. & P. Nat. 

 Pfl. P: 211./. 165, A. B.; Greville, Scot. Crypt. Fl. 4: pi. 192. 



No specimen of Peziza vincta Cooke & Peck has been seen 

 but the description suggests the above. 



2. Tapesia tumefaciens Ellis & Ev. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 281. 



1897. 



Apothecia densely gregarious, or in broad strips appearing 

 through cracks in the bark, seated on a thick subiculum, when 

 fresh about 2 mm. in diameter, mouse-colored, soft and fleshy, 

 the margin fringed with olivaceous, straight hairs; hymenium 

 slightly concave; asci clavate-cylindric, reaching a length of 

 70-75 n and a diameter of 8-10 /x, 8-spored; spores obliquely 

 1-seriate, ellipsoid, hyaline, 5-6 X 8-11 ^i paraphyses stout, 

 about 2 n thick. 



On swollen dead stems of Bigelovia graveolens. 



Type locality: Colorado. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



