C6 NATUEAL HISTORY BULLETIN 



nally brownish, clothed with a thick covering of short, rigid, 

 sharp-pointed, pale brown, 1- to 3-septate hairs which reach a 

 length of 200 to 250/a; hymenium dull, pallid, becoming brown- 

 ish; asci cylindrical, 8-spored, 100 to 125 by 10/x,; spores ellip- 

 tical to ovoid, 1- to 2-guttulate (mostly 2), smooth, 12 to 14 by 

 7 to 8/x; paraphyses clavate, apex much enlarged, 5 to 7/x in 

 diameter, brownish. 



On ground in woods where wood had been burned, Iowa City. 



One collection of this species has been made, but the plants 

 occurred in great abundance being closely crowded together on 

 damp soil where a brush-pile had been burned. 



*Lachnea scutellata (L.) Gill., Discom. 75. 1879. 

 Plate 10, f. I. 



Peziza scutellata Linn., Sp. PI. 1181. 1753. 

 Peziza ciliata Hoffm., Veg. Crypt. 2 : 25. 1790. 

 Humaria scutellata Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 321. 1869. 



Common on rotten wood. 



The species is quite distinct in its scarlet, saucer-shaped plants 

 and still more so in its broadly-elliptical, smooth spores com- 

 pletely filled with oil-drops and granules. The paraphyses also 

 seem to be delicately marked. This is one of the most common 

 species in this locality and is probably widely distributed. 

 Specimens have also been observed by the writer in New York 

 and North Dakota. 



Lachnea hirta (Schumach.) Gill., Discom. 75. 1879. 



Peziza hirta Schumach., PI. Saell. 2 : 422. 1803. 



Cups scattered, sessile, subhemispherieal, becoming more or 

 less expanded, externally clothed with septate, brown hairs; hy- 

 menium concave or nearly plane, bright red ; asci cylindrical, 8- 

 spored; spores elliptical, spinulose, usually 2-guttulate, about 25 

 by 10/x,; paraphyses clavate, filled with colored granules. 



On the ground and decaying materials. 



The plants described under this name are similar to the pre- 

 ceding in external characters but the hymenium is usually 

 darker. The spores are more narrowly-elliptical and spinulose, 

 the markings resembling those of the spores of L. hemispherica 

 (Schaeff.) Gill. 



