Pezizae 



Peziza. Asci cylindrical, 8-spored. Spores I -seriate, smooth, hyaline, el- 

 liptical, 2833x11 13^; paraphyses straight, tips brownish and thick- 

 ened in a clavate manner up to 8 lop- Massee. 



On the ground in shady places. Summer and autumn. 



North Carolina, Curtis; New Jersey, Ellis; Minnesota, Johnson; Mas- 

 sachusetts, Frost; New York, Peck, Rep. 22. 



Esculent. Cordier. 



** Cochlea'ta. Subsessile, oblique, etc. 



P. veno'sa Pers. venosus, full of veins. Smell strong, nitrous ; 

 sessile or contracted into a short, stout, stem-like base; cup-shaped and 

 with the margin incurved when young, then expanding and the margin 

 becoming more or less split or lobed and wavy, 1.2-2 in. across; disk 

 umber-brown, externally whitish, minutely granular, and furnished with 

 rather stout, anastomosing ribs which radiate from the base; excipulum 

 pseudoparenchymatous, cells largest at the periphery, where some run 

 out as clavate, free tips ; asci cylindrical, 8-spored. Spores obliquely 

 i-seriate, smooth, hyaline, often with I large oil-globule, elliptical, ends 

 obtuse, wall rather thick, 18-24x1 113;*; paraphyses septate, tips 

 clavate, brownish. On the ground. Spring. Massee. 



Massachusetts, Frost; California, H ' . and M.; Rhode Island, Bennett; 

 New York, Peck, Rep. 24. 



Edible. Has a most decided nitrous odor and also fungoid flavor. 

 Cooke. 



P. ba'dia Pers. of a brown or bay color. (Plate CLII, p. 554.) 



Gregarious or cespitose, sessile or narrowed into a very short, stout, 

 stem-like base and often more or less lacunose ; subglobose and closed at 

 first, then cup-shaped or more expanded, margin entire or nearly so, the 

 entire cup often wavy, rather thick, 1.2-2 in. across; disk dark-brown, 

 externally paler-brown and minutely granular, often with a purple tinge ; 

 hypothecium and excipulum formed of stout, septate, irregularly in- 

 flated hyphae, hypothecium compact, excipulum spongy and cavernous; 

 cortex compact, the hyphae running out in irregular lumps to form the 

 external granulations; asci cylindrical, apex truncate, 8-spored. Spores 

 obliquely i-seriate, hyaline, continuous, elliptical, with one large oil- 



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