Orange-Ground Peziza. Edible.
Aurantia means orange color.
Subsessile, irregular, oblique, externally somewhat pruinose, whitish. The sporidia are elliptic, rough.
Found on the ground in damp woods. The cups are often quite large and very irregular. Found in August and September.
Peziza repanda. Wahl.
Figure 431.—Peziza repanda.
Repanda means bent backward. These plants are found in dark moist woods, growing on old, wet logs, or in well wooded earth. The cups are clustered or scattered, subsessile, contracted into a short, stout, stem-like base. When very small they appear like a tiny white knot on the surface of the log. This grows, so that soon a hollow sphere with an opening at the top is produced. The plant now begins to expand and flatten, producing an irregular, flattened disk with small upturned edges. The margin often becomes split and wavy, sometimes drooping and revolute; disk pale or dark brown, more or less wrinkled toward the center; externally the cup is a scurvy-white. The asci are 8-spored, quite large. The paraphyses are few, short, separate, clavate, and brownish at the tips. The spores are elliptical, thin-walled, hyaline, non-nucleate, 14×9µ.
Found from May to October. Edible.