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slender, branched, enlarged above ; plants usually bright colored, 

 growing on decajdng wood. 



Three species common in Iowa. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Externally clothed with long rigid hairs S. floccosa. 



Externally clothed with soft flexuose hairs, or nearly 

 naked. 

 Cups large, 3 to 4 cm.; stem short, thick. . . . S. coccinea. 

 Cups medium sized, 1 to 2 cm. ; stem slender, 



usually long 5. occidentalis. 



•Saecostpha floccosa (Schw.) Sacc, Syll. Fung. 8. 156. 

 1889. 



Plate 22, f. i. 

 Peziza floccosa Sch^.. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4 : 172. 1832. 



*Sarcosctpha coccixea (Scop.) Sacc, Syll. Fung. 8: 154. 

 1889. 



Plate 21. f. n. 



Elvela coccinea Scop.. Fl. Car. 2 : 479. 1772. 

 Peziza coccinea Jacq.. Fl. Austr. 2, pi. 163. 1774. 

 Laclinea coccinea Gill.. Discom. QQ. 1879. 

 Geopyxis coccinea Massee. Fung. Fl. York. 252. 1905. 



On partially buried sticks in the woods, fall and spring, Iowa 

 City and Mt. Pleasant. Also observed in North Dakota. 



*Sarcostpha occidextalis (Schw.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 154. 

 1889. 



Plate 22. f. ii. 



Peziza occidenialis Schw., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4 : 171 

 1832. 



On deca^-ing sticks in woods, spring and summer, Iowa City, 

 Mt. Pleasant, and Des Moines, Iowa. Also observed in North 

 Dakota. 



CHLOROSPLENIOI Fries. Summa Veg. Scand. 356. 1849. 



Plants sessile or shortly stipitate. concave or plane, bright yel- 

 low to olivaceous or aeruginous-greeu. often staining the sub- 



