This plant is sessile or nearly so, growing on the ground in dense clusters. The specimens in Figure 429 grew in Dr. Chas. Miesse's cellar, in Chillicothe. They grow quite large at times; are ovate, externally grayish-white, covered with a minute down or tomentum, internally reddish-brown, the rim of the cup finely serrated, as will be seen in the figure below. They are found from May to July.
Peziza semitosta.
Figure 430.—Peziza semitosta.
Semitosta, from its scorched appearance, or umber-like color.
The cup is one to one and a half inches across, hemispherical, hirsute-velvety without, date-brown within; margin indexed.
The stem is ribbed or wrinkled. Sporidia are subfusiform, .00117 inch long.
These plants are found on the ground in damp places. It was formerly called Peziza semitosta or Sarcoscypha semitosta. The plants in Figure 430 were found in August or September on the north side of the Edinger Hill, near Chillicothe, and were photographed by Dr. Kellerman. No doubt edible, but the writer has not tried them. This is called Macropodia semitosta.