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divided only near the base, often granular and colored, the ends 

 sometimes slightly adherent. Asci cylindrical or cylindrico- 

 clavate. Spores 8, simple, elliptic or fusiform, usually guttulate. 

 Growing on decaying wood. 



KEY TO SPECIES. 



a — Substratum colored green aeruginosum 



a ■ — Substratum uncolored. 



b — ■ Apothecia greenish yellow chlora 



b — Apothecia very dark green versiforme 



Clilorospleniitm chlora (Schw. ) Mass. Brit. Fung. Fl. 356. 1849. 

 Peziza chlora Schw. Syn. Fung. Carol. No. 1235. 1822. 



Apothecia solitary or in groups, 4-6 mm. broad, interior 

 greenish yellow, exterior slightly darker and somewhat rough- 

 ened, cup-shaped. Hymenium pale olivaceous, hypothecium 

 greenish, exciple dark. Paraphyses filiform, granular, rather 

 stout. Asci cylindrico-clavate. Spores elliptic or fusiform, 

 finely guttulate, 6-9 mic. long and 2.5-3 1TUC - wide. 



Growing on old wood. Probably quite common. 



Coll. Freda M. Bachman, Nov. 3, 1907. 



Chlorospleniuin versiforme (Pers.) De. Not. Comm. Soc. Critt. 

 Ital. 1 :376. 1864. 



Peziza versiformis Pers. Icon, et Descr. 25. pi. 7. f. 7. 

 1798. 



Apothecia caespitose, 2-3.5 cm. broad, stipitate, funnel-shaped 

 or somewhat irregular, interior and exterior greenish black. 

 Stipe 1-2 cm. long. Hymenium slightly brownish, the ends of 

 the paraphyses and asci dark green ; hypothecium brown, cen- 

 tral part of the cup of three dark brown and two lighter brown 

 strata. Paraphyses filiform, branched, filled with green granules 

 near the ends, also somewhat adherent at the ends. Asci cylin- 

 drical. Spores 6-10 mic. long and 2-4 mic. wide, elliptic. 



Growing on rotting logs. 



Coll. Freda M. Bachman, Nov. 21, 1907. 



