Hone: pezizales, thacidiales and tuberales of minn. 89 



cue large central guttula, 16-20x8-10 mic. ; paraphyses septate, 

 filiform, clavate, apex brownish and up to 6 mic. wide. 



On earth in moist woods, often among moss; St. Louis, July 1886, 

 Hoi way 227; Hennepin, Sept. 1900, Freeman 741 ; Hennepin, Aug. 

 1903, Arthur Johnson 100. 



Rehni, to whom material was submitted, thinks that the specimen 

 (Johnson 100), may be Hclvella pezizoides Afzel., but upon careful 

 comparison with the specimen of Peziza subclavipes Phill. & Ell. 

 in the Minnesota Herbarium, it is found to agree perfectly. Holway 

 22/ specimens were determined by Durand as Macropodia macro- 

 pus subclavipes Phill. & Ell., Rehm's description (182, 2:354) 

 gives "stipite cylindrica, 3 mm. Ig., i mm. lat." while some of the 

 type specimens of Ellis 985 measure in the dry state up to 6 mm. 

 wide. Saccardo (191, 8: 31) gives "stipite cylindrico, 8x1 mm." 

 Holway 227 and Johnson 100, show spores of a fusiform shape 

 but no trace of w^artiness is discernible while most of the spores 

 are elliptical and blunt. This may be only a young stage of P. 

 macropus, but the color is difTerent and the variation of flocculose 

 exterior of cups wath the subverrucose stipe is quite evident, while 

 in P. macropus there is no such variation. 



Exsiccati : Ellis, North American Fungi. 985. 



3. Macropodia fusicarpa (Ger.) Durand, Journ. Myc. 12:29. 1906. 



Peziza fusicarpa Gerard, Bull. Torr. Bot. CI. 4: 64. 1873. 



Macropodia pnbia Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 150. 1889. 



Lachnca fusicarpa Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 172. 1889. 



Solitary or gregarious, sessile or stipitate, first closed becoming 

 cupulate to slightly saucer-like, fleshy, up to 2.5 cm. across ; margin 

 slightly incurved; hymenium varying from tan to very dark brown 

 depending upon the age, smooth; exterior slightly darker furfura- 

 ceous to velvety with short, brown, septate, blunt setae ; spores fusi- 

 form, hyaline, continuous, biguttulate, at maturity distinctly verru- 

 cose, 32-34 X 9-10 mic. ; paraphyses slender only very slightly cla- 

 vate. 



On damp soil and humus, banks of ravines ; Washington, Sepi. 

 1907, Hone 845. 



The specim.ens described here grew very abundantly in several 

 places within the radius of a half mile. Although the spores may 

 be slightly small for Pesisa fusicarpa Ger. they agree better than 

 they do with those of Pesiza semitosta, its nearest ally. 



