Hone: pezizales, piiacidiales and turerales of minn. 97 



On the ground ; Hennepin, May, 1903, Hibbard. 



Separated from S. floccosa Schw. by the shape of the cup, shorter 

 hairs, crenulate margin, and immense size of the spores. Demarca- 

 tion between cup and stipe is very distinct with the cup quite cupu- 

 late and the stipe slender. The material does not show the numer- 

 ous guttulae recorded for the spores of 6". protract a Sacc. Perhaps 

 they appear only when more mature. ^. protract a (Fr.) Sacc. 

 seems to be identical with 5. alpiiia E. & E. Torr. Bull. Bot. CI. 24: 

 281. 



Plates: Cooke, Mycogr. pl. 25. fig. 98; Borszcz. Fungi Ingrici. 

 pl. 4. 5; Wettstein, Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges. 383. t. 16 (?). 



5. Sarcoscypha melastoma (Sow.) Cooke, Mycogr. 59. pl. 27. fig. 103. 

 1879. 



Peziza melastoma Sow. Eng. Fung. tab. 149. 1797. 



Plectania melastoma Fckl. Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8:163. 1889. 



Solitary, sessile or substipitate, fleshy, firm, cup-shaped or irregu- 

 lar, 3 cm. in diameter ; margin crenulate or coarsely notched ; black- 

 ish-brown ; hymenium even, smooth, black ; exterior, pubescent 

 brown-black, sessile or folded at base to form short plicate point of 

 ?ttachment, rooting by very long, septate, coarse, flexuose, black 

 filaments or hairs, w-hich are 4-6 mic. wide, 2 cm. high; spores 

 elliptical, oblong, rather acute, smooth, hyaline, uniseriate, con- 

 tinuous, eguttulate, granulate, 20-24 ^ 8-9 mic. ; paraphyses numer- 

 ous, filiform, slender. 



2. LACHNELLULA KARSTEN. 



Cups gregarious, waxy, minute, substipitate, hemispherical, be- 

 coming saucer-shaped ; exterior tomentose with white hairs longer 

 toward the margin; spores egg-shaped to globose, smooth, hyaline, 

 continuous. 



I. Lachnellula resinaria (Cke. & Ph.) Rehm, Rabh. Kryptfl. 1:3:864. 

 1896. 



Peziza resinaria Cooke & Phill. Grev. 3 : 185. 1-874. 



Gregarious, stipitate, 0.25-1 mm. high, 0.5 mm. wide, turbinate 

 to expanded ; hymenium smooth, orange-yellow ; margin incurved, 

 fringed ; exterior and short stipe tomentose, hairs longer towards 

 margin forming fringe, white ; spores elliptical and very minute, 

 lower ones in ascus smaller than those near apex, smooth, hyaline, 

 continuous, 1.66-2.5 rnic- x 2.49-3.5 mic; paraphyses cylindrical, 

 apex slightly thickened, free at the ends. 



