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Tapesia discincola (Schw.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 384. 1889; Peziza discin- 

 cola Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 174. 1832. The type of this species 

 in the Schweinitz Collection has been examined and found very unsatisfactory. 



Tapesia megaloma (Schw.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 378. 1889; Peziza mega- 

 lotna Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 175. 1832. This was reported on 

 rotten wood. No specimens have been seen and details of the fruits are un- 

 known. 



Tapesia melaleucoides var. Vaccinii Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. P: 578. 

 1891. This species which was distributed by Rehm (Ascom. 153 b) as Tapesia 

 ftisca has been reported from Michigan by Dr. B. Kanouse. No American 

 material has been seen. 



Tapesia pruinala (Schw.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 379. 1889; Peziza pruinata 

 Schw. Schr. Nat. Ges. Leipzig 1: 120. 1822. This is Solenia poriaeformis 

 (Pers.) Fries. 



Tapesia sanguinea (Pers.) Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 303. 1869; Peziza san- 

 guinea Pers. Tent. Disp. Fung. 34. 1797; Patellaria sanguinea Karst. Myc. 

 Fenn. 1: 231. 1871; Patellea sanguinea Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. V: 284. 

 1889. This species belongs with the Patellariaceae which are not treated in 

 this work. 



Tapesia scariosa (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 375. 1889; Peziza 

 scariosa Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Grevillea 3: 156. 1875. Original description 

 reads: "Cups collapsing, confluent, black with a whitish margin springing from 

 a black subiculum; sporidia slender, subfusiform. Allied to P. fusca." A 

 small specimen and drawing by Massee are in the herbarium of the New York 

 Botanical Garden. Nothing more is known of it. 



Tapesia tela (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 373. 1889; Peziza tela 

 Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Grevillea 3: 156. 1875. This is Cyphella tela (Berk. & 

 Curt.) Massee, Jour. Myc. 6: 179. 1891. 



Tapesia tenebrosa (Karst.) Nannf. Nova Acta Soc. Sci. Upsal. IV. 8: 165. 

 1932. Reported from Michigan by Dr. B. Kanouse on oak bark. Charac- 

 terized by the stroma-like base of coarse hyphae on which the apothecia are 

 seated. Asci 5-6 X 30-40 m; spores 1.5-2 X 5-5.5 /x. 



38. MOLLISIA Karst. Myc. Fenn. 1: 187. 1871. 



Mollisiopsis Rehm, Ann. Myc. 6: 315. 1908. 

 Dibelonis Clements, Gen. Fungi 87, 175. 1909. 



Apothecia usually dark-colored, sordid, the hymenium oc- 

 casionally light-colored, externally smooth, or occasionally 

 slightly roughened; asci clavate to cylindric, or curved, some- 

 times short and subglobose to ellipsoid, fusiform, or baciliform; 

 paraphyses usually filiform, more rarely lanceolate, hyaline, or 

 colored. 



Type species, Peziza cinerea Batsch. 



The genus Mollisiopsis was established for species with 

 lanceolate paraphyses. 



