30 Proceedings of the Ohio State .Icademx of Science 



KEY TO SPECIES. 



a — Apothecia very dark lirown or l)luc lilack badia 



a — Apothecia light Ijrown repanda 



Fecica badia Pers. Alycol. Eur. i : 224. 1822. 



Apothecia solitary or caespitose. 6-8 cm. broad, interior of 

 the cup Hght brown with a sHght purpHsh tinge, later becoming 

 quite dark brown, more or less wrinkled at the center, exterior 

 purplish near the base but the upper part covered with the ends 

 of brownish, fasciculate, septate, hyphae making it more or less 

 olivaceous ; sessile or substi])itate, base ])ubesccnt, white. Flesh 

 blue, rather thin. Hymenium and hypothecium brownish, cen- 

 tral part almost colorless and composed of large rounded cells ; 

 outer cells more compact and ends of hyphae protruding to form 

 the granulations on the surface. Paraphyses septate, hyaline, 

 unbranched, very slightly enlarged upward. Asci cylindrical, 

 blue with iodine. Spores elleptic, granular at first, later biguttu- 

 late, smooth, 15-17 mic. long and 6-8 mic. wide. 



The sterile parts of the apothecia are described by Alassee 

 as composed of hyphae irregularly inflated and less inflated near 

 the outer part of the cup. 



Growing on rotting logs and on the ground in woods. 



Coll. Bruce Fink, W'm. Shirleler, Alay ly, 1907. L. O. 

 Overholts, H. W. Fink, May 2, 1908. Freda AF Bachman, May 

 12, 1908. 

 -\-Pe::i::a repa)ida \\"ahl. Ups. 466. 1820. 



Apothecia solitary or caespitose, 6-10 cm. broad, edge in- 

 cised and repand, interior light brown, somewhat wrinkled 

 toward the center, exterior mealy and whitish, but brownish 

 when meal has been rubbed ofif ; fleshy, brittle, substipitate, root- 

 ing. Stipe 1-2 cm. long and about i cm. thick, wrinkled. Hy- 

 menium almost colorless, hypothecium and central part of the 

 cup brownish ; cells of central and outer part very large and 

 more or less rounded. Paraphyses filiform, septate, very few. 

 Asci cylindrical. Spores uniseriate, hyaline, smooth, oval, but 

 varying much in size, 12-17 "'^ic- long and 6-10 mic. wide. 



