Seaver: Descriptions of Cup-Fungi 
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Apothecia scattered, gregarious or more commonly cespitose, 
sessile, at first globose, expanding and becoming deep cup-shaped, 
regular in form, or infolded and cochleate or auricular, occa- 
sionally one-sided and rarely Otidea-Wkt, externally varying from 
tan-colored when young to dark-brown with age, whitish near the 
base, pustulate, the pustules often reddish or purplish, becoming 
dark with age, reaching a diameter of lo cm. ; hymenium dark- 
brown ; asci tapering below and often forked at the base, cylindric 
above; spores i-seriate, usually oblique and often irregularly 
crowded, ellipsoid, with the ends quite strongly narrowed, becom- 
ing verrucose, hyaline or very faintly colored, 17-23 X 8-10 jn; 
paraphyses rather strongly enlarged above, yellowish. 
On the ground in deciduous woods. 
Type locality: Europe. 
Distribution: New York to Oregon, California and Alabama; 
also in Europe. 
Illustrations: Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 28^; Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. 
State Univ. Iowa 6: pi. 14, f. 2, pi. 75, /. i; Cooke, IMycographia 
pi. 57, /. 226; Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. pi. 42. 
Exsiccati: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 981. 
Peziza cochleata of Linnaeus is a species of doubtful identity. 
Persoon in 1801 described Peziza badia and cited as a synonym 
Helvella cochleata Bolton. Bolton apparently included in his 
description two species, one of which is commonly taken to be 
identical with Peziza badia as at present known. Bolton’s Hel- 
vella cochleata represents his conception of Peziza cochleata. 
Some modern authors are inclined to regard Peziza cochleata L. 
as an Otidea. In the absence of any definite information, the 
writer is inclined to adhere to the early conceptions of Bolton and 
Persoon and regard Peziza cochleata L. as at least a doubtful 
synonym of the present species. 
Peziza vesiculosa Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 457. 1789 
fHelvella cochleata Bolton, Fungi Halifax 3 : 99 (in part). 1789. 
Pustularia vesiculosa Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 329. 1869. 
Aleuria vesiculosa Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 45. 1879. 
Apothecia gregarious or more often densely cespitose, at first 
closed and globose, gradually expanding and becoming deep cup- 
shaped, regular in form or irregularly contorted, sessile or with 
