246 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [APRIL 
WYNNEA GIGANTEA B. & C., Jour. Linn. Soc. g:124.. pl. 17. 
fig. 31. Midotis gigantea Sacc. Sylloge 8:547. 
‘Common stem three inches high, three-quarters of an inch thick, 
deeply rugose and cracked, so that the surface resembles that of 
Opegraphae; above divided repeatedly, with subdivisions elongated 
into ear-shaped cups, which are smooth externally, but wrinkled, 
though not cracked like the stem when dry; the cups are from two 
and one-half to three inches long, with incurved margins variously 
divided and sometimes proliferous. Asci cylindrical, containing 
eight subcymbiform spores .o00g5 inch long, and more or less obtuse 
at either end. When steeped in water, the inside of the stem acquires 
a slight foxy tinge. The substance is so totally different from Peziza, 
though this curious fungus is closely allied to P. leporina and P. 
onotica, that it cannot be placed in the same genus. Peziza macrotis 
Berk., a species found abundantly at Darjeeling at 7,500 feet, is clearly 
congeneric and may be characterized Wynnea macrotis Berk., etc.” 
Collected near Orizaba, Mexico, by Borrert, without note as to substratum. 
WYNNEA MACRoTIS Berk. 
Peziza macrotis Berk., Hook. Jour. Bot. & Kew Gard. Misc. 
3:203. 1851. Wynnea macrotis Berk., Jour. Linn. Soc. 9:124- 1866. 
Midotis macrotis Sacc., Sylloge 8:547. 
“Inodorous, dry, firm, leathery, subcartilaginous, varying in size, 
sometimes five inches long; erect, tufted, connate below and thence 
branched; cups elongated, oblique auriform, of a bright liver color, 
smooth externally; margin subinvolute. Hymenium even, purplish. 
Sporidia oblong-elliptic, with one side in general more conve: 
Nucleus single, in dried specimens.” 
On rotten wood Darjeeling, India, 7500*, June-July. 
Wynnea americana, nov. sp. 
Sclerotium tough, subgelatinous, coriaceous on drying, irreg- 
ularly lobed, variable in size, 50x 40™™ more or less, brown. Main 
axis becoming variously divided above almost immediately after 
emerging from the ground, the short divisions giving rise at once 
clusters of apothecia of variable size and number. Apothecia sever al 
to about twenty-five on a single plant, typically simple, rarely — 
liferous, erect, elongate ear-shaped, very variable in size; the longest 
seen 130X60™™, the average about 80™™, the margins somewhat 
