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exterior with a few hyaline hairs. Hymenium and other parts 

 pale yellowish. Paraphyses filiform. Asci cylindrico-clavate, 

 but narrowed at the ends. Spores oblong-elliptic or slightly fusi- 

 form, simple, hyaline, 6 mic. long and 2 mic. wide. 



Growing on old somewhat charred wood. 



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



Genus VIII. Dasvscypha Fuck. Symb. Mycol. 304. 1869. 

 Type species, Dasyscypha bicolor (Bull.) Fuck. 



Mycelium within the substratum. Apothecia fleshy-waxy, 

 stipitate, pilose or villous, at first concave, becoming more or 

 less expanded, small. Stipe slender, hairy. Hairs of the cup 

 hyaline or colored, often covered with granules which may dis- 

 appear. Paraphyses filiform or needle-like, often exceeding the 

 asci in length. Asci cylindrical or cylindrico-clavate. Spores 8. 



Growing on decaying wood and stems. 



The genus may be distinguished from Lachnella by the pres- 

 ence of a stipe. 



KEY TO SPECIES. 



a — Interior of the cup yellowish. 



b — Apothecia stipitate turbinulata 



b — Apothecia sessile or subsessile patula 



a — Interior white. 



b — Paraphyses with obtuse ends nivea 



b — Paraphyses necdle-Hke. 



c — Growing on wood virginea 



c — Growing on leaves ciliaris 



-\-Dasyscypha patula (Pers.) Sacc. Syl. Fung. 8: 443. 1889. 

 Peziza patula Pers. Obs. Mycol. i : 42. 1799. 



Apothecia in groups, 40-300 mic. broad, sessile or with a 

 very short stipe, white, hemispherical, the disc surrounded by 

 non-septate, long, slender, pointed, hyaline, hairs. Hymenium, 

 hypothecium and exciple colorless. Paraphyses needle-like and 

 longer than the asci. Asci cylindrico-clavate. Spores elliptic or 

 fusiform, hyaline, 7-10 mic. long and 1.5-2 mic. wide. 



Growing on maple leaves in late fall. Common. 



Coll. Freda M. Bachman, Oct. 23, 1907. 



