220 The North American Cup-Fungi 



irregularly ellipsoid, often slightly constricted near the center so 

 as to appear slipper-shaped, containing one or two oil-drops, pale- 

 olive, becoming brown, 4-5 X 7 10 ^u; paraphyses cylindric, 

 simple or rarely branched. 



On rotten wood of various kinds. 



Type locality: North Carolina. 



Distribution: Throughout eastern North America, the 

 West Indies and Ceylon ; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Batsch, Elench. Fung. pi. IZ, f. 51; Boud. 

 Ic. Myc. pi. 452; Trans. Linn. Soc. 24: p/. 57,/. 10 IZ. 



ExsiccATi: N. Am. Fungi 23Z5: Seaver, N. Dak. Fungi 28. 



The species is easily recognized by its greenish apothecia and 

 peculiar shaped, greenish spores. 



41. PYRENOPEZIZA Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 293. 1869. 



?Phillipsiella Cooke & Ellis; Cooke, Grevillea 7: 48. 1878. 



Apothecia at first submerged in the plant tissues, then 

 erumpent, sessile, at first rounded and closed, opening and be- 

 coming cup-shaped, or more or less expanded, externally dark- 

 colored, usually brown, or brownish-black, and often roughened; 

 hymenium usually concave, lighter than the outside of the 

 apothecium; asci clavate, or subclavate, 4-8-spored; spores 

 ellipsoid to fusiform, or elongate-ellipsoid, straight, or more 

 rarely curved, simple; paraphyses filiform, usualh" enlarged 

 above. 



Type species, Peziza rugulosa Fuckel. 



Distinguished from Mollisia b}' the erumpent character of the 

 apothecia a character which is very difficult to recognize in 

 mature plants. The two genera are, to sa>- the least, very 

 close together. 



On dicotyledonous plant tissues. 



On woody plants, trees or shrubs. 

 On canes of Rubus. 



Spores 7-9 /x long. 1. P. Rubi. 



Spores 12-13 ju long. 2. F. lacerata. 



On leaves. 



Spores 10-15 /j long, on Quercus Prinus. 3. P. prinicola. 



Spores 7-8 n long, on Magnolia. 4. P. protrusa. 



Spores 5-7 ju long, on Acer. 5. P. leucodermis. 



Spores 4-5 ^ long, on Tilia. 6. P. minuta. 



