94 MINNESOTA BOTANICAL STUDIES. 



On the ground; Ramsey, Sept. 1896, Freeman 234. 



The plicate caespitose character as well as watery to gelatinous, 

 loose weft distinguish this from the other species. 



Exsiccati: Roumeguere, Fungi selecti. 6371: Plates: Cooke, My- 

 cogr. pi. 54. fig. 212; Gill. Discom. Franc, pi. 40; Sow. Eng. Fung. 

 I. pi. 5. 



3. Otidea plebophora (B. & Br.) Phillips, Man. Brit. Discom. 55. 1887. 



Fecial plebophora 15. & Br. Brit. Fung. no. 11 53. Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. 1886. 



Solitary, substipitate, narrowed to very short stem-like base, 

 shallow cup-shaped, oblique, wavy, thin, waxy, buff all over, 2-3 

 cm, wide and 2 cm. high ; margin entire, wavy ; hymenium smooth, 

 sometimes slightly venose ; exterior scurvy, slightly rugulose with 

 small veins running up from the base ; stipe short thick, to 2 mm. 

 high and thick ; spores elliptical, blunt, smooth, hyaline, continuous, 

 biguttulate, 10-12x4-6 mic. ; paraphyses septate, clavate to globose 

 at apex, 4-6 mic. wide, straight or only slightly blunt. 



On sticks buried in the ground; Hennepin, Sept. 1900, Freeman 



854. 



The venose character is not as strongly marked as in Cooke's 

 figure 217. Lighter color and paraphyses separate this from O. 



leporina. 



Family II. Helotiaceae. 



Mycelium partially or wholly superficial or within the substratum ; 

 saprophytic or parasitic ; cups superficial, fleshy-waxy, waxy-mem- 

 branous, cartilaginous or gelatinous, concave or plane, sessile or 

 stipitate, exterior glabrous or hairy, hypothecium differentiated 

 from the exciple which is composed of elongate, thin-walled, bright- 

 colored cells. 



I. SARCOSCYPHA FRIES. 



Cups gregarious or caespitose, fleshy-waxy, stipitate, generally 

 cupulate, usually bright-colored ; exterior tomentose and paler than 

 the interior; hairs short or long, white or often appressed and in- 

 conspicuous with age ; spores elliptical, large, smooth, hyaline, con- 

 tinuous. 



I. Sarcoscypha coccinea (Jacq.) Cooke. Mycogr. 55. fig. 95. 1879. 

 (Plate XVIII.) 



Fcziza coccinea Jacq. Miscell. Austr. Bot. t. 169. 1776. 



