PEZIZA CEREA, FROM MR. S. L. SPRAGUE, OHIO (Fig. 

 864). We present a photograph of a very rare species, at least in 

 this country. It grew on some woods dirt that had been brought 

 with plant from Massachusetts. The fresh specimen was brought 

 to us by Mr. 

 Sprague. Peziza 

 cerea is well 

 named, for it has 

 the appearance as 

 though it were 

 made of wax. It 

 was illustrated by 

 Sowerby (t. 3). In 

 England, according 

 to the records, it 

 occurs usually on 

 spent tan bark. In 

 this country I have 

 noted no record ex- 

 cepting Seaver, 

 Iowa, which ap- 

 pears to me an 

 error for the com- 

 mon Peziza vesi- 

 culosa. 



Color very- 

 light pinkish buff 

 of Ridgway, waxy 

 in appearance. 

 When moist, con- 

 colorous, both sur- 

 faces, but on partially drying, the external surface becomes white, 

 furfuraceous. Cups 2-3 inches in diameter, repand, laterally divided 

 or somewhat unilateral, tapering to a short, thick, lacunose stem-like 

 base. Asci 240 mic. long. Spores elliptical, 8x12 hyaline, smooth. 

 Paraphyses slender, very slightly thickened, hyaline, straight. 



There has been no good figure of Peziza cerea given. Sowerby's 

 is characteristic as to shape, but lacks the "waxy" effect. Cooke, 

 p. 244, has but little resemblance to it in either shape or color. Price, 

 fig. 80, is fair. We doubt if a drawing could be made to represent it 

 as well as does our photograph. 



HYSTERANGIUM PHILLIPSII, FROM J. UMEMURA, 

 JAPAN (Fig. 865). The Hymenogasters are fungi that grow mostly 

 beneath the surface of the ground. A few of them are partly emergent. 

 In Europe the subject has been finely worked by the best workers in 

 Europe, viz. Tulasne and Vittadini, who published splendid mon- 

 ographs of them. In the United States, Harkness did a lot of work 

 on the subject. The usual mycologists rartly see them, and the 

 foreign species are practically unknown, though they no doubt occur 

 in all countries, though not collected, for are not observed. 



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