Seaver: The Genus Pseudo plectani a 
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Pezisa fuscocana Alb. & Schw. is claimed to be the same, and, 
if so, the name has priority. No authentic material of this species 
has been seen. 
PsEUDOPLECTANiA NiGRELLA (Pers.) Fuckel, Symb. 
iVIyc. 324. 1869 
Peziza nigrella Pers. Syn. Fung. 648. 1801. 
?Peziza stygia Berk. & Curt. Grevillea 3 : 153. 1875. 
Plectania nigrella Karst. Act. Soc. Fauna FI. Fenn. 2 : 119. 1885. 
1 Pseudo pie ctania stygia Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 166. 1889. 
Otidella nigrella Schr. in Cohn Schles. Kryptfl. 3- : 48. 1893. 
Lachnea nigrella Gill. Discom. 78. (1874?) 
Plants gregarious or occasionally closely crowded, sessile or sub- 
stipitate, at first closed and subglobose, becoming expanded and 
cup-shaped or nearl)'^ plane, hymenium brownish-black, margin 
often wavy and slightly incurved, externally clothed with very 
fine hairs, 5 mm. to 1.5 cm. in diameter; hairs very long but usu- 
ally closely coiled and twisted giving to the exterior of the cup a 
slightly tomentose appearance, of nearly uniform thickness 
throughout their entire length, sparingly septate and pale brown, 
4-6 ju, in diameter; asci cylindric or subcylindric with a long stem- 
like base, entire ascus often as long as 300-325 /a and about 15/x 
in diameter at the thickest point; spores with a large oil-drop or 
often with several smaller ones, 12-14 iri diameter; paraphyses 
enlarged at their apices and filled with brown coloring matter, 
about 4 /X thick. 
On the ground in coniferous woods, among moss, especially 
Sphagnum. 
Type locality: Europe. 
Distribution : New Jersey to Wisconsin, Alabama and Ja- 
maica ; also in Europe. 
Illustrations : Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 344; Cooke, Mycogr. pi. 31, 
f. 120; Gill. Discom. pi. 65. 
Peziza stygia Berk. & Curt, differs only in its smaller size and 
longer stem. A fragment of the Carolina specimen has been ex- 
amined and it seems doubtful if the species is distinct. Later col- 
lections may, however, prove it to be so. 
