Hone: pezizales, piiacidiales and tuberales of minn. 85 



yellow-gray, coarsely scurvy to scabrous ; stipe very short, formed 

 by the plicate base mainly ; spores elliptical, obtuse, smooth, hyaline, 

 continuous, biguttulate, uniseriate, 18-20x9-11 mic. ; paraphyses 

 slender, only slightly clavate. 



On ground in damp places and among moss ; June 1877, John- 

 son 548 (not preserved) ; Cook, Aug. 1903, Freeman & Ballard 154. 



Plates : Gill. Discom. franc, pi. 36 ; Cooke, Mycogr. pi. 74. fig. 

 286; Boudier, Icones Mycol. 2. pi. 338. 



5. Geopyxis carbonaria (Alb. et Schw.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8:71. 1889. 

 Pcaiza carbonaria Alb. et Schw. Consp. Fung. Nisk. 314. tab. 4. 



fig. 2. 1805. 



Gregarious or solitary, fleshy, stipitate, cupulate to campanulate, 

 concave, 1.25 cm. across. 2 cm. high; margin erect, minutely and 

 iireguarly crenulate, thin, nearly white; hymenium watery-tan 

 brown, even; exterior lighter brown, minutely scurvy; stipe coarse- 

 ly scurvy, white, slender, length very variable; spores elliptical, 

 slightly acute, mainly eguttulate, smooth, hyaline, continuous ; 10- 

 14 X 6-7 mic. ; paraphyses very slender and slightly clavate. 



Abundant on ground in burned over regions ; St. Louis, July 

 1886, Hoi way 191 ; Cook, Aug. 1903, Freeman & Ballard 124. 



Field notes or preserved specimens do not show any trace of red 

 in the hymenium which most authors mention. Nevertheless this 

 seems to be P. carbonaria Alb. & Schw. 



Exsiccati: Krieger, Fungi Sax. 1269; Sydow, Mycoth. March. 

 774 : Plates : Alb. et Schw. Consp. Fung. Nisk. pi. 4. fig. 2 ; Cooke, 

 Mycogr. pi. 74. fig. 284, 



6. Geopyxis petaloides (Cooke & Phill.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8:67. 1889. 



Pedza petaloides Cooke & Phill. Brit. Discom. 46. 1887. 



Solitary, stipitate, fleshy, thin, firm, cupulate to expanded ; mar- 

 gin entire or waved, up to 1-3 cm. across when expanded; hymenium 

 purple-brown, rugose, subumbilicate ; exterior pruinose to finely ver- 

 rucose, fuliginous brown, base rugose; stipe up to 4 cm. long, 

 slender, enlarged up into rugose base of cup and tapering, deeply 

 rooting, floccose; spores elliptical, blunt, minutely asperate, granu- 

 late, continuous, hyaline, 10-14 x 5-6 mic. ; paraphyses slender, 

 slightly clavate. 



On ground among chips and leaf-mould in open areas; Henne- 

 pin, May 1905, Hone yyy. 



The specimens were found sunken to the cup in litter of chips 

 and leaf-mould, so that they appeared sessile. The descriptions 



