Seaver: Description of Cup-Fungi 
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The genus should not be confused, as has often been done, 
with Sarcosphacra which differs from Sepultaria in the absence 
of the long brown hairs which are so characteristic of the plants 
of the latter genus. The two genera agree in that both are hypo- 
gaeous. So far as habits are concerned, Sepultaria seems to be 
intermediate between the Pezizales and the Tuberales although 
with the exception of Hydnocystis the fruit characters are not 
nearly so suggestive of the Tuberales as are those of some other 
discomycete genera such as Boudiera and Lamprospora. How- 
ever that is a question for the morphologist. 
Sepultaria Longii sp. nov. 
Apothecia densely gregarious or cespitose, at first closed and 
entirely buried, finally opening to the surface by an elongated or 
compressed aperture, or when the substratum is not too compact 
spreading so as to expose the hymenium, never protruding above 
the surface of the substratum but causing the soil to become 
slightly elevated as they mature, reaching a diameter of 4 cm., 
regular in form or becoming very much contorted from mutual 
pressure, externally pale-brown and entirely clothed with long 
hairs which extend into the substratum, binding the surrounding 
soil closely to the outside of the apothecium ; hairs flexuous, sep- 
tate, brown, and of nearly uniform thickness throughout their entire 
length ; asci subcylindric above, tapering gradually below into a 
stem-like base, reaching a length of 250-300/1, and a diameter of 
20-22 /t; spores i -seriate, short-ellipsoid or subglobose, at first 
containing one small oil-drop which gradually enlarges until it 
nearly fills the spore, about 18-20X20-22/1; paraphyses stout, 
gradually enlarged above where they reach a diameter of 4-6/1,, 
filled with numerous vacuoles or oil-drops, hyaline. 
On bare ground. 
Type locality; Albuquerque, New Mexico. 
Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 
Explanation of Plate CLXI 
Upper figure, group of apothecia partially concealed by the soil ; middle 
figure, section through the cluster of apothecia showing their hypogaeous 
habit; lower figure, several apothecia removed from the soil. 
