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NATURAL HISTORY BULLETIN. 



Pezizace^E 



A — Spores spherical. 



b — Receptacle externally clothed with hairs. 



c — Receptacle bright colored ; hairs long, sharp Splncrospora 

 c — Receptacle dark colored ; hair fine short Pseudoplectania 



b — Receptacle externally smooth . . . Plicariella 



A — Spores elliptic, blunt, rarely pointed, 

 b — Receptacle externally hairy. 



c — Margin regular ..... Lachnea 



c — At first buried or partly buried in ground, 



margin irregularly splitting . . . Sarcosphtzra 



b — Receptacle externally smooth. 



c — Regular, cup-shaped, margin smooth . Peziza 



Sub-genera 

 d — Juice colorless. 



e — Asci blue with iodine 



f — Receptacle sessile . . . Plicaria 



f — Receptacle stipitate . . . Tazzetta 



e — Asci not blue with iodine, 

 f — Spores smooth or rough. 



g — Entirely sessile . . . Ilumaria 



g — More or less sessile, 

 h — .Stem short thick, 

 i — Stern smooth. 



j — Receptacle goblet- or beaker- 

 shaped . . . Ceo pyx is 

 j — Receptacle at last entirely 



flat .... Piscina 



i — Stem uneven, grooved . Acctabula 



h — Stem long thin ; receptacle out- 

 side rough . . . Macropodia 

 f — Spores at last reticulate . . Aleuria 

 d — Juice milky, colored . . . Galaclinia 

 c — Cup irregular, split or elongated on one side Otidea 



Ascobolack.i: 



A — Spores colorless. 



b — Spores spherical . . . . 



b — Spores elliptical. 



c — Peridium developed, 

 d — Asci 8-spored. 



e — Receptacle hairy 

 e — Receptacle smooth 

 d — Asci 16- to many-spored. 



e — Asci without ring at summit 

 e — Asci with ring at summit 

 c — Peridium wanting. 



Cubonia 



Lasiobolus 

 Ascophanus 



Ryparobius 

 Streptotheca 



