Pezizae 



I. ALEURIA Fr. 



Fleshy or fleshy-membranaceous, externally powdered or with a Peziza. 

 woolly scurf. 



* Macropodes macros, long; podes, feet. Stem firm, elongated, 

 furrowed. 



** Cochleata cochleatus, spiral. Subsessile, oblique or twisted. 



*** Cupulares. Subsessile, regular. 



**** Humaria. Small, somewhat fleshy, margin downy. (None 

 known to be edible.) 



***** Enccelia. More or less coriaceous. (None known to be edible.) 



* Macropodes. Stem firm, elongated, etc. 



P. aceta'bulum Linn. a cup. Ascophore stipitate, cup-shaped, 

 fleshy, rather tough, disk dark umber-brown, externally paler and mi- 

 nutely scurfy or flocculose; mouth somewhat contracted; 1.22 in. 

 broad, 1.2-1.4 in. high. Stem .4-. 6 in. high, often .4 in. thick, im- 

 perfectly hollow, with parallel or anastomosing ribs, which continue for 

 some distance up the ascophore as branching veins, pale umber; cells 

 of the cortex give off short, rather closely septate hyphae in groups ; 

 asci cylindrical, 8-spored. Spores obliquely i-seriate, hyaline, smooth, 

 broadly elliptical, ends obtuse, with a very large oil-globule, i8-22x 

 I2-I4/*; paraphyses straight, septate, the brownish, clavate tip 5-6/w. 

 thick. 



The fluted stem and veined outside of the excipulum mark the pres 

 ent species. The colorless hypothecium is composed of very densely 

 and compactly interwoven hyphae. Massee. 



Season spring. 



North Carolina, Curtis ; New Jersey, Ellis; Massachusetts, Frost; 

 Rhode Island, Bennett; Ohio, Lloyd, R. 4. 



Esculent. Cordier, Cooke. 



P. ma'cropus Pers. macros, long; potts, a foot. Solitary, 1-3 in. 

 high, cups 12 in. broad. The cups become expanded, and sometimes 

 reflexed ; the exterior is ash-colored and clothed with little hairy or vil- 

 lous warts, the hairs consisting of concatenate cells, their extremities 

 free. The stem is enlarged downward, often pitted, occasionally be- 

 coming hollow with age. Phillies. 



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