Hone: pezizales, phacidiales and tuberales of minn. 91 



Cooke (48, pi. 15. fig. 57), and Rehm (178, p. 918. fig. 1-4), 

 figure the spores of P. rutilajis Fr. as verrucose or warty. Massee 

 (132, p. 107, 134, p. 406) figures them as reticulate from speci- 

 mens named by Fries. Seaver (202, p. 38. pi. 8) calls attention 

 to the reticulate character and places the species under Aleuria as 

 Giilet had done, following Engler and Prantl (p. 187) who char- 

 acterize the subgenus Aleuria by the net-like reticulate spores. The 

 Minnesota material is distinctly reticulate. 



Exsiccati: Sydow, Mycoth. March. 2yy {Peziaa vivida, spores 

 measure 20-22x10-12 mic.) 881; Thiimen, Mycoth. uni. 522; 

 Plates: Massee. Grevillea 22: 107; Seaver, Discom. Eastern Iowa, 

 pi. 8. fig. 2. 



3. Aleuria aurantia (Mull.) FckL Symb. Myc. 325. 1869. 



Peziza aurantia Muller. Flor. Dan. tab. 67. fig. 2. 1775. 



Caespitose and irregular or solitary and quite regular, subsessile 

 or sessile, fleshy, up to 4.5 cm. in diameter ; hymenium orange, even 

 or folded by pressure ; exterior pinkish to whitish sub-pruinose ; 

 spores elliptical, with 2 large guttulae, uniseriate, hyaline, contin- 

 uous, becoming strongly reticulate when mature, some apiculate, 

 with an apical papilla, 15-18x8-9 mic; paraphyses slender, sep- 

 tate, clavate, apex 8 mic. wide, filled with orange granules. 



Growing amid moss on the ground, often near stumps ; June 1876, 

 Johnson 542 (not preserved) ; Hennepin, Sept.-Oct. 1907, Hone 



^53, 985- 



This is one of our most beautiful fall fungi. It has been found 

 in clusters measuring over 4 inches in diameter. A single plant 

 often measuring 1.75 inches. The color is of the brightest orange 

 set off by the deep green of the moss, as it is always found growing 

 amid species of Polytrichum. The spore markings, especially the 

 apical papillae, as figured by Rehm and Boudier are strongly de- 

 veloped. 



Exsiccati: Thiimen. Fungi austr. 928. (spores agree in mark- 

 ings but run slightly larger) ; Krieger, Fungi sax. 145 : Ellis, North 

 American Fungi. 836. Plates: Nees, Syst. Pilze, pi. T^y. fig. 279; 

 Cooke, Mycogr. pi. 52. fig. 203 ; Seaver, Discom. Eastern Iowa. pi. 

 8. fig. i; Boudier, Icones Mycol. 2. pi. 313; Rehm, Raben. Krypt. 

 Fl. 1 : 920. fig. I. 



II. GALACTINIA COOKE. 



Cups caespitose or solitary, large, fleshy, sessile, hemispherical be- 



