226 The North American Cup-Fungi 



On dead stems of various plants. 

 Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Colorado, California and (Quebec?); also in 

 Europe. 



ExsiCCATi: Clements, Crypt. Form. Colo. 287. 



14. Pyrenopeziza Absinthii (Lasch) Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. P: 

 625. 1892. 



Peziza Absinthii Lasch; Rab. in Klotzsch, Herb. \'iv. Myc. 14: 17; Bot. Zeit. 



8: 438. 1850. 

 Pyrenopeziza fusconibra Rehm; Winter, Flora 55: 526. 1872. 

 Niptera j'uscorubra Rehm, Ber. Naturh. Ver. Augsburg 26: 21. 1881. 

 P seudohelotium Absinthii Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 297. 1889. 

 Mollisia fuscorubra Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 322. 1889. 



Apothecia thickly gregarious, at first globose and closed, 

 submerged, becoming erumpent and sessile, cup-shaped, finally 

 expanded and saucer-shaped, externally reddish-brown, smooth, 

 .5-1.2 mm. in diameter; hymenium reddish-yellow; asci cylindric- 

 clavate, reaching a length of 60-70 ju and a diameter of 6 7 n, 

 8-spored; spores elongate-ellipsoid, 2.5 X 8-10 yu; paraphyses 

 sparse, filiform, 2 /x in diameter. 



On dead stems of various plants, Iva xanthiifolia, Erigeron, 

 Bidens, Ilelianthiis, Artemisia etc. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New Jersey to Kansas and North Dakota. 



Exsiccati: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 60; Brenckle, Fungi Dak. Z15. 



15. Pyrenopeziza Artemisiae (Lasch) Rehm, Ascom. 66. 1872. 



Peziza Artemisiae Lasch in Klotzsch, Herb. Viv. Myc. 335; Grevillea 1: 131. 



1873. 

 Mollisia Artemisiae Vh'xW. Brit. Discom. 188. 1887. 



Apothecia erumpent, turbinate, substipitate, expanding and 

 becoming flattened, brownish-black; hymenium concave to 

 plane, whitish; asci cylindric, reaching a length of 50 /^ and a 

 diameter of 5 /x; spores elongate-cylindric, 1.5 2 X 7-9 /x; pa- 

 raphyses filiform, 2 /x thick, enlarged above to 3 n. 



On dead stems of Artemisia vulgaris. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York and New Jersey to Michigan and 

 Ontario. 



Exsiccati: Barth. Fungi Columb. 3866. 



