Dodge—Wisconsin Discomycetes. 
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found on dung in greenhouses, and this specimen may be a small, less 
fleshy form of that species. 
Plicaria coeiiinieo-maculata Rehm (Ann. Myc., 2: 351, 1904). 
Apothecia chiefly globose, sessile with a narrowed base, disk sub- 
orbicular, explanate, distinctly margined, pale, exciple glabrous, con¬ 
text parenchymatous, made up of subcinerous cells, 25-30 mic. broad, 
slightly tawny, blue-spotted, when dry wrinkled, 3 cm. in diameter. 
Hypothecium especially blue-stained. Asci cylindrical, rounded at the 
apex, 180-200x10-12 mic., 8-spored. I-f. Spores ellipsoid, rounded 
at each end, epispore slightly roughened, 1-celled, enclosing the large 
oil drops, hyaline, 15-18x9-10 mic., in one row. Paraphyses filiform, 
septate, 3 mic. thick, hyaline, towards the apex up to 5 mic. thick. 
East Madison, 1903 (Harper). 
“The species is to be placed near Plicaria Howsei. So far as color 
is concerned it is nearest Peziza lividulae Phil. (Cf. Cooke, Mycog., pi. 
7 2, fig. 277), but in the latter the color almost disappears in the dried 
out specimens.” 
In general appearance this species is certainly close to P. ladia, and 
I am inclined to think that perhaps all the violet-stained forms may be 
put together as a single species. On the ground, Parfrey’s glen, 
August 1906; Devil’s Lake, July 1905; Blue Mounds, June 1907 (Har¬ 
per); Blue Mounds, September 1903 (Harper); Alaska, August 1905 
(Dodge). 
Plicaria pustulata (Hedw.) Fckl. 
Depauperate specimen, Devil’s Lake, July 1903 (no. 346, Harper), 
Morgan vid. P. pustulata var. minor Rehm, Devil’s Lake, July 1903, 
Rehm vid. The specimens from Eagle Heights, July i904, perhaps be¬ 
long here. 
Plicaria repanda (Wahl.) Rehm. 
As indicated below, a number of specimens sent to Rehm were iden¬ 
tified as this species. The Wisconsin forms agree well, so far as habit 
is concerned, with the figures by Bresadola (Fungi Trid., pis. 188,189 ), 
P. varia (Hedw.) Fr„ and P. repanda Wahl. Madison, September 
1899, October 1899, (Rehm vid.), June and October 1907; Star Lake, Sep¬ 
tember 1901 (Overton); Homewood, August 1903; Milwaukee, August 
1904; Eagle Heights, July 1905; Devil’s Lake, May 1905, July 1907 
(Harper); Glens, July 1907; Blue Mounds, August 1909; Ihlenfeld’s 
woods, August 1909 (Dodge), Rehm vid. 
Plicaria violacea (Pers.) Fckl. 
On burned ground, Krohn’s Lake, September 1912. (Dodge). 
