Hone: pezizales, phacidiales and tuderales of minn. 79 



Gregarious or caespitose or solitary, sessile or narrowed into a 

 very short stem like base, first snbglobose, becoming expanded cup- 

 like, regular or often very irregular and wavy, 1-3 cm. diameter, 

 1.25 cm. high; margin slightly serrate or entire, incurved; hyme- 

 nium even, deep brown ; exterior pruinose to granulose, lighter olive- 

 brown ; spores elliptical, obtuse, hyaline, continuous, 1-2 large gut- 

 tulae, verrucose, 14-18x8-9 mic. ; paraphyses filiform, straight. 



On damp ground; June-July, 1876, Johnson 541 (not preserved) ; 

 Hennepin, Sheldon; Hennepin, Sept. 1905, Hibbard; Ramsey, Oct. 

 1907, Hone 939. 



Pcziza atro-vinosa Ger. & Cooke is closely related but differs in 

 having a purple-brown color, while this is distinctly olive-brown. 

 Hone 939 specimens were light tan when young, becoming dark 

 olive-brown when old. 



Exsiccati : Sydow, Mycoth. March. 380 ; Thiimen, Mycoth. Univ. 

 120; Ellis, North American Fungi. 981 : Plates: Cooke, Mycogr. 

 pi. 57. fig. 226 ; Gill. Discom. franc, pi. 42 : Boudier, Icones My- 

 col. 2. PI. 283. 



8. Plicaria atrovinosa (Cooke & Gerard). 



Pcziza atrovinosa Cooke & Gerard, Bull. Buff. Acad. Sci. 288: 



iS75- 



Caespitose, sessile, fleshy, thick, cup-shaped then expanded to 

 flattened, saucer-like, up to 1.5 inches across; margin entire, wavy, 

 dark ; hymenium smooth, deep vinous-brow'n ; exterior glabrous to 

 granular, lighter brown with purple tinge, base sometimes slightly 

 folded; spores elliptical, obtuse, hyaline, continuous, 1-2 guttulae, 

 asperulate, 14-16 x 6-8 mic. ; paraphyses filiform, only very slightly 

 ciavate up to 4 mic. w'ide. 



On clay ground : Cook, Aug. 1903, Freeman & Ballard 9 ; Hen- 

 nepin, Oct. 1906, Minnesota Mycological Society. 



This differs from Pcaiaa bodia Pers. only in color, as it has a 

 decided purple-vinous tinge with the brown, while all available de- 

 scriptions except those of Massee (134, p. 436.) distinguish Pe- 

 rfra badia Pers. by its olive-brown color. Peziza saniosa Schrad. 

 is too small to agree with the Alinnesota material and Cooke's de- 

 scription (48. p. 299.) does not agree with it at all. 



Plates: Cooke, Mycogr. pi. 57. fig. 225. 



9. Plicaria pustulata (Hedw.) Fckl. Sjrmb. Myc. 327. 1869. 

 Octospora pustulata Hedw. Musci. frond. 2: 19. t. 6. f. A. 1789. 

 Peziza pustulata Pers. Synops. Meth. Fung. 646. 1801. 



