Hone: pezizales, phacidiales and tuberales of minn. 95 



Lachnca anstriaca (Beck) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 169. 1889. 



Caespitose, gregarious, stipitate or sessile, closed, globose at first 

 becoming shallow cup-shaped, sometimes quite irregular ; margin 

 entire, often split ; hymenium brilliant scarlet, even, 2-4 cm. in diam- 

 eter ; stipe short, thick when present ; exterior white, clothed with 

 dense tomentum, when young of delicate, flexuose, septate hairs, 

 mature specimens lose some of the tomentum ; spores elliptical, 

 obtuse, hyaline, smooth, thick-walled, continuous, straight, 24- 

 34x8-12 mic. ; paraphyses filiform only slightly thickened at the 

 apex and filled with orange granules. 



On rotting sticks and branches partially buried in leaf-mould, 

 moist woods; Nov. 1876, Johnson 556 (not preserved); Henne- 

 pin, April 1900, Freeman 559; Hennepin, April-May 1901, Free- 

 man 85; Ramsey, April 1901, 1903, Freeman 958; Hennepin, 

 April-May 1905, 1906, Hone 706; Hennepin, Sept. 1900, Freeman 

 852 ; Hennepin, Sept. -Oct. 1903, Hone ; Hennepin, Oct. 1907, Hone. 



Sarcoscypha coccinea (Jacq.) Cooke is very abundant here in 

 the early spring; often the bright scarlet cups appear breaking 

 through the frozen ground even when lightly covered with snow. 

 Late in the fall we find these same scarlet cups, but very seldom 

 if ever do we find mature spores in the fall. The cups are lined 

 vdth paraphyses filled with scarlet granules and scattered young 

 asci just beginning to form spores. Some of the asci do not show 

 a sign even of spore formation. 



Exsiccati : Ellis, North American Fungi. 434 ; Plates : Grev. Scott. 

 Crypt. 3. pi. 171; RoUand, Bull. Soc. Myc. yy. pi. i. 1887; Cooke, 

 ]\Iycogr. pi. 25. fig. 95 ; Gill. Discom. Franc, pi. 58. fig. i ; Sow. 

 Eng. fung. I. pi. 13. 



2. Sarcoscypha floccosa (Batsch.) Cooke, Mycogr. 56. fig. 97. 1879. 



Pcziza floccosa Batsch. Elench. Fung. 223. 1783. 



Gregarious or solitary, stipitate, fleshy, funnel-shaped, 8-9 mm. 

 in diameter, 2.5 cm. high ; margin incurved, fringed with long 

 white hairs ; hymenium bright scarlet, even ; exterior white, tomen- 

 tose, also the long, tapering stipe ; stipe gradually expanding into 

 the cup ; hairs long, white, numerous ; spores fusiform or elliptical, 

 obtuse, very thick-walled, eguttulate, 18-34x10-12 mic; para- 

 physes filiform, septate, slender. 



On ground or on dead, buried sticks, in moist woods ; Waseca, 

 June-July, 1891, Sheldon 605, 667; Ramsey, July 1904, Freeman; 

 Crow Wing, July 1904, Hone 419.5. 



