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Mycologia 
Pseudoplectania vogesiaca (Pers.) 
1 Peziza fuscocana Alb. & Schw. Conspect. Fung. 312. 1805. 
Peziza vogesiaca Pers.; Moug. & Nest. Stirpes Crypt. 584. 1818. 
Peziza melania Pers. Myc. Eu. i ; 239. 1822. 
Peziza melaena Fries, Syst. Myc. 2 : 60. 1822. 
Peziza spongiosa Peck, Bot. Gaz. 5 : 35. 1880. 
Pseudoplectania melaena Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 165. 1889. 
Pulparia spongiosa Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8 : 612. 1889. 
Melascypha melaena Bond. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 56. 1907. 
Plants large, attaining a diameter of 2-3 cm., cup-shaped or 
occasionally nearly plane, margin more or less wavy, externally 
black and very sparingly clothed with short, brown, flexuous hairs, 
stipitate, hymenium dark olivaceous-brown ; stem variable in 
length, often 2-3 cm. and about 3 mm. thick, rooting below by a 
dense mass of dark brown, coarse hairs, 5-7 /x in diameter, both 
stem and exterior of the cup often longitudinally wrinkled, giving 
rise to vein-like markings, the whole plant often resembling a gill 
fungus ; asci cylindric with a very long stem-like base, entire ascus 
200-275 X 16-18 /x; spores i-seriate, globose with one large oil- 
drop, at first hyaline, becoming very pale brown, smooth ; paraph- 
yses slender, brown and coiled or hooked at their apices, about 
3-4 (X in diameter. 
On decaying wood among moss, especially Sphagnum, in con- 
iferous woods. 
Type locality: Europe. 
Distribution : Vermont to Minnesota ; also in Europe. 
Illustrations: Bond. Ic. Myc. pi. 34s; Cooke, Mycogr. pi. 4p, 
f. ip 3 ; Rabenh. Krypt. El. : 1030, /. i. 
Cotype material of Peziza spongiosa Peck {Pidparia spongiosa 
Sacc.) has been examined and this agrees in every detail with 
cotype material of Peziza vogesiaca Pers. as shown in the accom- 
panying plates. The only other American specimens of this 
species examined were collected by Macoun in British Columbia, 
June 4, 1889, and referred to Peziza spongiosa Peck. The species 
has been reported from Minnesota by Miss Daisy Hone^ as P. 
melaena Fr. It has also been reported from Wisconsin by Dr. B. 
O. Dodge in a paper now in press. 
1 Minnesota Botanical Studies 4: 70. 1909. 
