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CORYNE SARCOIDES (Jacq.) Till. 



Plate XXII, fig. i. 



1S')1 Peziza sarcoides Persoon, Syn. Fang., II, p. 633. 



1817 Ascobolus inquinans Martius, Flora Crypt. Erlang. , p. -471. 



L823 Bulgaria sarcoides Fries, Syst. Myc, II, p. 168. 



1833 Bulgaria sarcoides Link, Handbk. p. 334. 



I860 Bulgaria sarcoides Berkeley, Brit. Fung., p. 375. 



1871 Bulgaria sarcoides Cooke, Handbk. of Brit. Fung. II, p. 733. 



1887 Ombrpphila sarcoides Phillips, Brit. Disc, p. 323. 



1889 Coryne sarcoides Saccardo, Sylloge Fung., VIII, p. 642. 



Caespitose, sessile or substipitate, firm, subgelatinous, flesh- 

 red, or dark purple, 5 to 10 mm. in diameter; hymenium plane 

 or concave and repand; asci cylindrical or slightly enlarged 

 upwards; sporidia 8, fusiform, straight or unequal sided, 

 granular within, guttulate 15 to 25 by 4 microns; paraphyses 

 filiform, slender, enlarged at their apices, abundant. 



Habitat — In woods on the decaying trunks of trees; often 

 growing crowded together in thick masses from the crevices 

 of the wood. 



These plants may be found in large numbers in damp shady 

 woods on decaying logs in the summer and fall. They are 

 often crowded together so as to become very irregular in out- 

 line. The color of the older specimens is dark purple, but in 

 younger plants it is of a reddish purple or flesh color. The 

 plants are often nearly sessile, spreading in irregular masses 

 over the surface of the wood, but they are often shortly stipi- 

 tate. When young the hymenium is concave, becoming plane, 

 sometimes with a little depression in the center. 



Family V— M OLLISIACE^E. 



Receptacle either free from the first or at first immersed 

 then breaking through the epidermis. Apothecium consisting 

 of roundish cells. At first spherical, then more or less ex- 

 panded. Asci 8-spored; spores hyaline, 1 to many celled. 



Genus I— M OLLISIA Fries. 

 Receptacle entirely sessile, waxy, at last plane light colored, 



