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divided only near the base, often granular and colored, the ends 

 sometimes slightly adherent. xA.sci cylindrical or cylindrico- 

 clavate. Spores 8, simple, elliptic or fusiform, usually guttulate. 

 Growing on decaying wood. 



KEY TO SPECIES. 



a — Substratum colored green aeruginosurti 



a — Substratum uncolored. 



b — Apothecia greenish yellow chlora 



b — Apothecia very dark green versif orme 



Chlorospleniniii chlora (Schw.) Mass. Brit. Fung. Fl. 356. 1849. 

 Peziza chlora Schw. Syn. Fung. Carol. No. 1235. 1822. 



Apothecia solitary or in groups, 4-6 mm. broad, interior 

 greenish yellow, exterior slightly darker and somewhat rough- 

 ened, cup-shaped. Hymenium pale olivaceous, hypothecium 

 greenish, exciple dark. Paraphyses filiform, granular, rather 

 stout. Asci cylindrico-clavate. Spores elliptic or fusiform,, 

 finely guttulate, 6-9 mic. long and 2.5-3 "^i*^- wide. 



Growing on old wood. Probably qitite common. 



Coll. Freda M. Bachman, Nov. 3, 1907. 



Chlorospleninni versif or ]ne (Pers.) De. Not. Comm. Soc. Critt., 

 Ital. I :376. 1864. 



Peziza versiformis Pers. Icon, et Descr. 25. pi. 7. f. 7. 

 1798. 



Apothecia caespitose, 2-3.5 cm. broad, stipitate, fttnnel-shaped 

 or somewhat irregular, interior and exterior greenish black. 

 Stipe 1-2 cm. long. Hymenium slightly brownish, the ends of 

 the paraphyses and asci dark green ; hypothecium brown, cen- 

 tral part of the cup of three dark brown and two lighter brown 

 strata. Paraphyses filiform, branched, filled with green granules 

 near the ends, also somewhat adherent at the ends. Asci cylin- 

 drical. Spores 6-10 mic. long and 2-4 mic. wide, elliptic. 



Growing on rotting logs. 



Coll. Freda M. Bachman, Nov. 21, 1907. 



