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The present species appears to be not uncommon in the United 
States, being represented in the Kew Herbarium from Carolina 
(Schweinitz) ; North Greenbush (C. H. Peck) ; Cotoosa Springs, 
Georgia (Ravenel, No. 1730) ; Pennsylvania (Dr. Michener, No. 
3602); Newfield, N.J. (J. B. Ellis, No. 2886). 
The range of colour from yellowish-green through clear yellow 
to orange or saffron is often shown in the different plants in the 
same group. When dry the margin is incurved and more or less 
wrinkled. 
Peziza rhaphidospora, J Ellis, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club , Vol. vi., p. 107 
( 1876 ). 
Gregarious or sometimes more or less confluent, sessile, sub- 
globose when young, soon becoming plane or even slightly convex, 
rather fleshy, minute, up to -J m.m. across, milk-white or sub- 
fuscous ; cortex as seen from the outside composed of irregularly 
parallel, septate hyphae radiating from base to margin ; brownish 
at the base, becoming paler and running out into crowded, parallel, 
free hyphse at the margin ; externally and the margin downy, due 
to the presence of numerous spreading, hyaline, septate, thin- 
walled hairs, which are often more or less bulbous at the base, 
80-120 x 5 p ; asci clavate, apex abruptly narrowed to a point, 
base continued into a slender pedicel, 8-spored ; spores very long 
and slender, apex blunt, base pointed, hyaline, smooth, at first 
multi-guttulate, then multi* septate, usually more or less curved, 
arranged in a parallel bundle in the ascus, 65-75 x 3 p ; para- 
physes slender, becoming slightly thickened at the tip. 
Erinella rhaphidospora, Sacc. Syll., vm., No. 2101. 
On old decaying pine stump and on decaying wood of Castanea. 
Newfield, New Jersey (Ellis). 
Authentic specimen from Ellis examined, also specimen in 
N.A.F., 842. 
When treated with iodine solution the septation of the spores is 
very distinct. The external hairs are thin-walled and soft, but in 
form resemble the stout, rigid hairs characteristic of Lachnea , 
being more or less bulbous at the base, and becoming thinner 
towards the point. The following note accompanied Ellis’s speci- 
men sent to Dr. Cooke, which is now in the Kew Herbarium : — = 
“ Peziza (Dasysc.) rhaphidospora, Ellis. On an old pine stump, 
Newfield, N.J., Nov., 1875. Gregarious, minute, nearly plane, 
subconfluent, milk-white or subfuscous, woolly. Asci clavate, 
paraphyses thickened above, sporidia linear-lanceolate, nearly as 
long as the asci, nucleate. — J. B. E.” 
Peziza rhaphidospora, Berlc. Sf Curt., Fungi Culenses No. 683 i i Linn 
Soc. Journ., Vol. x., p. 368 (1869). 
Gregarious; sessile, at first globose and closed, then expanding 
and becoming plane with a slightly raised, rounded margin, 
1-2 m.m. across; disc dingy reddish-orange or rufous (when dry), 
externally pale, minutely but densely downy, due to the presence 
of numerous thin-walled, septate, obtuse, hyaline hairs, 50-80 X 
4-5 p, generally rough with minute particles of lime, margin 
