Hone: tezizales, piiacidiales and tuberales of minn. 93 



character and size, except that the verrucose markings are not so 

 prominent. 



Plates : Boucher, BuU. Soc. Myc. France. 3 : 147, pi. 14. fig. 2. 



12. OTIDEA PERSOON. 



Cups gregarious or caespitose or solitary, fleshy, large, elongated 

 on one side or split on one side to the base, more or less stipitate ; 

 exterior rough ; spores elliptical, smooth, hyaline, continuous. 



1. Otidea leporina (Batsch.) Fckl. Symb. Myc. 329. 1869. 

 Peziza leporina Batsch. Elench. fung. 117. 1783. 

 Pezi'sa uncisa Peck, Report no. 24: 81. 1874. 



Gregarious and caespitose, substipitate, fleshy, tough, obliquely 

 cup or ear-shaped, up to 4 cm. high and 2-4 cm. wide ; margin 

 wavy, thin rolled in and cut on one side to the base; hymenium 

 smooth, deep brown in preserved state; exterior deep brown, fari- 

 nose, at base slightly venose costate ; stipe thick, short, lacunose, fari- 

 nose, hollow, cavity opening into hymenium; spores elliptical, ob- 

 tuse, smooth, hyaline, continuous, biguttulate, 10-14 x 6-7 mic. ; 

 paraphyses filiform, not clavate, curved distinctly, tips granulated, 

 3-4 mic. wide. 



On ground in woods; Sept.-Oct. 1876, Johnson 552 {Peziza un- 

 cisa Peck, not preserved) ; Cass, Sept. 1898, MacMillan. 



The specimens, having been preserved in formalin, show no 

 rusty or ferruginous color, but are a deep almost olive-brown. 

 Character of spores and paraphyses with the size and general habi- 

 tat all agree with that given for O. leporUia (Batsch.) Fckl. The 

 species is distinguished from O. auricula Cooke by the smaller spores 

 and curved paraphyses. 



Exsiccati: Saccardo, Myc. Ital. 512; Roumeguere, Fungi Gallici. 

 2951 ; Plates: Schaeff. Icon. Fung. tab. 156 (in part) ; Cooke, My- 

 cogr. pi. 54. fig. 211; Bresadola Fungi Trident. 2. pi. 182. 



2. Otidea cochleata (L.) Fckl. Symb. Myc. 329. 1869, 

 Peziza cochleata Linn. Spec. Plant, i: 1181. 1753. 

 Caespitose, variously contorted and plicate, sessile, fleshy, rather 



watery to waxy, first globose then expanded spreading and irregu- 

 larly plicate to repand with margin involute, up to 4 cm. across ; 

 hymenium fulvous to deep brown ; exterior dingy ochraceous to 

 white, pruinose ; spores elliptical, obtuse, smooth, hyaline, contin- 

 uous, usually biguttulate, 17-21x8-10 mic; paraphyses abundant, 

 long, filiform, clavate, septate, often curved. 



