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abundant. They are recognized at once by the cup which is 

 supported by the long slender stem. There seems to be a small 

 form of this species which is rather common but does not grow 

 larger than 1 to 2 cm. in height. 



Macropodia fusicarpa (Ger.) Durand, Jour. Myc. 12: 28. 

 1906. 



Plate 21, f. I. 



Peziza fusicarpa Ger., Bull. Torrey CI., 4 : 64. 1873. 

 Peziza {Sarcoscypha) pubida B. & C, Grevillea 3: 153. 1875. 

 Macropodia pubida Sacc, Syll. Fung. 8 : 159. 1889. 

 Lachnea f^isicarpa Sacc, Syll. Fung. 8: 172. 1889. 

 Feziza velutina Berk. & Curtis, Bot. N. Car. 132. 1867. 

 Peziza morgani Massee ; Morgan, Jour. Myc. 8 : 190. 1902. 



Cups scattered or thickly crowded, nearly hemispherical, 

 shortly stipitate, 1 to 2 cm. in diameter; hymenium dark brown 

 to purplish, darker when dry; externally clothed with short, 

 brown, septate hairs, giving the plant a mealy appearance ; hairs 

 longer near the base; asci cylindrical, 8-spored; spores fusiform, 

 rough with 2 oil-drops, granular within, 38 to 42 by 10/x; para- 

 physes slender, enlarged upwards. 



On the ground in woods, Iowa City and Mt. Pleasant, also 

 studied in New York state. 



The stem is short and generally covered with long, brow^n hairs, 

 and immersed in the ground so that the cups seem to be entirely 

 sessile. In the field the plants resemble somewhat those of Lach- 

 nea hemispherica (Schgeff.) Gill., but are distinguished by the 

 dark colored hymenium and by the sofe hairs instead of the 

 sharp bristly ones which are found on the cups. 



In the Discomycetes of Eastern Iowa it was suggested that 

 Peziza morgani Massee might be identical with this species which 

 has since been found to be the case, and several previous notes 

 made on it in various numbers of the Journal of Mycology and 

 Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences. The above syn- 

 onomy is taken largely from Durand (Jour. Myc. 12 : 28) in 

 which he goes still farther and makes both supposed species 

 synonymous with Peziza fusicarpa Ger. 



This is a very common and interesting species. 



