Pezizae 



Peziza. less split and wavy, sometimes drooping and revolute, extreme edge 

 often crenate ; 1.64 m - across; disk pale or dark brown or umber, 

 more or less wrinkled toward the center, externally whitish, minutely 

 granular. Spores obliquely i -seriate, hyaline, smooth, continuous, 

 elliptical, ends obtuse, 18 22x1 1 12/x; paraphyses septate, clavate and 

 brownish at the tips. Massee. 



On the ground, often in beech-woods; also on decayed trunks. 



New York, Ellis; Minnesota, Johnson; Ohio, Lloyd, R. 4. New 

 York. Ground and decaying wood. Croghan. September. Peck, 

 28th Rep. 



Specimens sent to the writer by Dr. W. B. Miller, Altoona, Pa., were 

 3;^ in. across, and a beautiful velvety brown. Cooked they had a 

 mushroom flavor. 



P. vesiculo'sa Bull. full of bladders. Clustered, often distorted 

 from mutual pressure, sessile but more or less narrowed at the base, 

 globose and closed at first, then expanding, but the margin usually re- 

 maining more or less incurved and somewhat notched ; disk pale brown, 

 externally brownish and coarsely granular from the presence of minute, 

 irregular warts, 1.23 m - across. Spores obliquely i-seriate, smooth, 

 hyaline, continuous, elliptical, ends obtuse, 21 24x1 1 12/x; paraphyses 

 slender, septate, clavate. 



Var. ce'rea Rehm. Similar in size, habit and general structure to the 

 typical form; differing in the wax-yellow color, the more distinct stem- 

 like base, and the slightly smaller spores, i8-i9xio/x.; very brittle. 

 Massee. 



North Carolina, Curtis; California, H. and M.; Massachusetts, Frost ; 

 New Jersey, Ellis; Ohio, Lloyd, Rep. 4; var. minor, Sacc.; Nebraska, 

 Clements; New York, Peck, Rep. 25. 



Esculent. Cordier. 



II. LACHNEA. 



P. odora'ta Pk. Cups .5-3 in. broad, gregarious or scattered, thin, 

 sessile, rather brittle when fresh, shallow, expanded or even convex from 

 the decurving of the margin, at first brownish, then white or whitish, 

 the hymenium ochraceous-brown ; asci cylindrical, opening by a lid, 

 .01 .012 in. long, .0006 .0008 in. broad, paraphyses filiform, obscurely 



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