282 The North American Cup-Fungi 



green; asci clavate, 8-spored; spores fusoid, containing several 

 oil-drops and finally becoming septate; paraphyses filiform and 

 surmounted with a fusiform conidium-like body. 

 Type species, Diplocarpa Curreyana Massee. 



Diplocarpa Curreyana Massee, Brit. Fungus-Fl. 4: 307. 1895. 

 (Plate 127.) 



Peziza diplocarpa Currey, Trans. Linn. Soc. 24: 153. 1864. 

 Lachnella diplocarpa Phill. Brit. Discom. 232. 1887. 



Apothecia gregarious, or closely congested, appearing sessile 

 but actually short-stipitate, at first closed, then expanding and 

 becoming shallow cup-shaped, reaching a diameter of 1-2 mm. 

 externally dark-brown, decidedly rough, tomentose, the rough- 

 ening often vertically striated near the margin; hairs short, 

 septate, brown, with the tips often sharp-pointed; stem 1-1.5 

 mm. long, relatively thick, about half as thick as long; hymenium 

 concave, olive-green, becoming brownish with age; asci clavate, 

 reaching a length of 70 ju and a diameter of 7 /x; spores partially 

 2-seriate, ellipsoid, with two or three small oil-drops, finally 

 becoming 1- or 2-septate about 3 X 9 n; paraphyses slender, 

 surmounted with fusoid, septate, spore-like tips which reach a 

 length of 28-32 /x and a diameter of 6-7 /x. 



On much rotted wood, Wychwood, Wisconsin. 



Type locality: F^ngland. 



Distribution: Wisconsin; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Trans. Linn. Soc. 24: pi. 25, f. 30, 32, 33; 

 Phill. Brit. Discom. pi. 7,f. 43; Mycologia 29: 176,/. 1. 



For a full discussion of this species see Mycologia 29: 174 177. 

 1937. 



51. LACHNELLULA Karst. Medd. Soc. Fauna Fl. Fenn. 11: 



138. 1884. 



Apothecia stipitate, or subsessile, bright-colored, yellowish, 

 or orange, externally whitish and densely clothed with hairs 

 which are white to the unaided eye, or in one species slightly 

 rufous; asci cylindric, or clavate, 8-spored; spores globose, hya- 

 line; paraphyses filiform, or subclavate. 



Type species, Peziza chrysophthalma Pers. 



Distinguished from Lachnella by its globose spores. 



Spores reaching a diameter of 5-6 jx. \. L. chrysophthalma. 



Spores reaching a diameter of 3.5 ix. 2. L. microspora. 



