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NOTE ON PEZIZA CALYCINA. Schtoi. 



By Dr. Rehm. 



Haec, lit videtur, optime nota et distincta species, tamen micros- 

 copice et cliemice examinata iterum in duas species separanda esi, 

 extus sane simillimas. 



a. Feziza calycina. CScJium.) Rehm. 

 Exs : Cooke, f. brit. I., 474. II. 369, A. B. 



Sporidia elliptica, long, 0,015-18, lat. 0,005. Ascitenues. Apex 

 ascorum ope solutionis aquosge lodii non coerulescit. 



h. Feziza laxicis. CCooke.J Rehm. 



Syn: Peziza calycina y. laricis, Cooke Hdb. p. 685. Exs : Fuckel f. rhen. 

 1.206. Eehm ascomyc, 62. Thiimen hb. myc. oec. 191 (sub. P. Wilkomii 

 Hartig.) Cooke f. britt. II. 370. 



Sporidia obtuso-elliptica^ long. 0,016-18, lat. 0,006-7. Apex 

 ascorum crassorum ope solutionis aquosae lodii coerulescit. 



Crescit in ramis emortuis Pini Laricis eamque his arboribus valde 

 nosci am fieri dicitur (cf. Sorauer. Pflanzenkrankheiten, p. 389.) 



Qu£e a Nylandero in " Pezizte Fen. p. 24," de Peziza calycina 

 dicuntur, propter parvitatem sporarum cum una alterave specie 

 supra notata non congruunt. Neque exemplaria nuper sub. " P. 

 calycina" a cl. Ellis ex Amerika septentrionali comunicata banc 

 speciem sistunt. 



Sit— 



Feziza Ellisiana. Rehm. nov. spec. 



Apothecia sparsa, primitus hemisphairica, dein breviter stipitata 

 atque dilatata, c. 1-2 mm lato, luteo-villosa, epithecio aurantiaco- 

 concaviusculo. Spora3 fusiformes, utrinque acuminatse, sim- 

 plices, hyalinte, long. 0,018, lat. 0,0025 ; biseriatje in ascis cla- 

 vatis sessilibus, long. 0,045-60, lat. 0,006-7. 



Paraphyses filiformes, ascos superantes, septatse, c. 0,002 crass. 



Pili peritbecii dilute vu'idi-lutescentes, obtusi, simplices, scabri, 

 c. 0,006 crass. 



Apex ascorum lodii ope coerulescit. 



Dr. MED. Rehm. 



Lohr a Main (Bayern). 



OBSERVATIONS ON PEZIZA CALYCINA. 

 By M. C. Cooke. 



The foregoing note by Dr. Rehm necessitates a few observations 

 from us, apropos of the two species which he proposes to recognise, 

 based on the variability of Peziza calycina. 



It must be premised that extensive examinations have convinced 



