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IMycologia 
PsEUDOPLECTANiA FULGENS (Pers.) Fuckcl, Symb. 
Myc. 324. 1869 
Peziaa fttlgens Pers. Myc. Eu. i : 241. 1822. 
Peziza cyanoderma deBary in Rabenh. Fungi Eur. 516. 1863. 
Aleuria fidgens Gill. Champ. 41. 1879. 
OtidcUa fulgens Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8 : 99. 1889. 
Barlaea fulgens Rehm in Rabenh. Kfypt. FI. i® : 930. 1896. 
Calossypha fulgens Bond. Ic. Myc. 1908. 
Plants cup-shaped, regular or irregular, often unequal sided, 
substipitate below and attached to the substratum by a dense mass 
of coarse mycelium which penetrates into the substratum and 
binds it together ; cup 1-2 cm. broad and of about the same depth, 
hymenium orange, externally paler and usually with a greenish 
tinge especially about the margin, clothed with poorly developed 
golden-yellow hairs or hair-like structures ; asci cylindric, gradu- 
ally tapering below; spores i-seriate, hyaline, smooth, 6-8 in 
diameter ; paraphyses rather stout, filled with golden-yellow oil- 
drops. 
On soil in coniferous woods. 
Type locality: Europe. 
Distribution : New York to Wisconsin. 
Illustrations: Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 319; Cooke, Mycogr. pi. 55, 
/. 20p; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. : 179, /. 146, C, D.; Gill. Champ, pi. 38. 
New York Botanical Garden. 
Explanation of Plates CIX and CX 
Plate 109 (upper figure). Cotype material of Pezisa spongiosa Peck, which 
is identical with Pseudoplectania vogesiaca (Pers.) Seaver. Photographed in 
dried condition. Natural size. 
Plate 109 (lower figure). Pseudoplectania nigrella (Pers.) Fuckel. Pho- 
tographed from fresh specimens collected in a Sphagnum bog in New Jersey by 
Dr. B. O. Dodge. Natural size. 
Plate no. Cotype material of Peziza vogesiaca Pers., which was later 
described as the type variety of Peziza melania Pers. Photographed from 
herbarium specimen. Natural size. 
