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1. VELUTARIA Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 300. 1869. 

 Schweinitzia Massee, Brit. Fungus-Fl. 4: 134. 1895. 



Apothecia erumpcnt, becoming apparently superficial, for the 

 most part single, or in dense, cespitose clusters, at first closed, 

 opening but remaining cupulate, externally clothed with a dense 

 woolly growth, tan-colored, or light-brown; hymenium concave, 

 or nearly plane; asci subcylindric, 8-spored; spores ellipsoid, 

 simple, hyaline, or slightly colored ; paraphyses filiform to clavate. 



Type species, Peziza rufoolivacea Alb. & Schw. 



The genus Schiveinitzia was proposed by Massee based on 

 Cenanginm phaeosporum Cooke. No authentic material of this 

 species is available but the original drawings and notes of Massee 

 are in the herbarium of The New York Botanical Garden. In 

 these notes he states "belongs to same genus as P. rufoolivacea.'' 

 Except for the brown spores the two species would seem to be 

 identical. The globose cells at the tips of the hairs in Cenangium 

 phaeosporum have been noted in P. rufoolivacea, or material so 

 determined. 



Nannfeldt (Nova Acta Soc. Sci. Upsal. IV. 8: 302) treats 

 Schweinitzia as a doubtful synonym of Velutaria. The present 

 author would agree but would remove the doubt. In fact, if as 

 admitted by Massee, the two species are congeneric there was no 

 reason for the founding of the genus Schweinitzia in the first place. 



1. Velutaria rufoolivacea (Alb. & Schw.) Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 

 300. 1869. 



Peziza rufoolivacea Alb. & Schw. Consp. Fung. 320. 1805. 

 Lachnea rufoolivacea Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 85. 1882. 

 Humaria rufoolivacea Quel. Ench. Fung. 291. 1886. 

 Lachnella rufoolivacea Phill. Brit. Discom. 275. 1887. 

 Schweinitzia rufoolivacea Massee, Brit. Fungus-Fl. 4: 135. 1895. 

 Cenangium Ruhi Baumler, Ann. Nat. Hofmus. Wien 13: 440. 1898. 

 Phaeangium Rubi Sacc. & Syd.; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 16: 764. 1902. 



Apothecia erumpent, either occurring singly, or several to- 

 gether in dense clusters and soon becoming apparently superficial, 

 externally clothed with a dense coat of poorly developed and 

 more or less disjuncted hairs often each with a large, globose apex 

 which gives a dense mealy appearance, reaching a diameter of 

 1-3 mm.; hymenium concave, or nearly plane, dark-colored, 

 slightly olivaceous to black; asci subcylindric, reaching a length 

 of 110-120 M and a diameter of 12-14 m, 8-spored ; spores 1-seriate, 



