BERKELEY’S TYPES OF FUNGI. 473 
and should be placed in the genus Phillipsia :—Phillipsia 
Venezuele, Berk. & Curt.; Peziza domingensis, Berk.; Peziza 
emarginata, Berk. & Broome. 
PHILLIPSIA VENEZUELE, Berk. $ Curt. in herb. (Pl. XVI. 
figs. 4, 5.) 
Plane and discoid, with a very slightly upraised margin, every- 
where glabrous; rather fleshy, sessile, but narrowed below to a 
very short point of attachment ; disc orange, externally and the 
margin paler; hypothecium formed of very thin, densely inter- 
woven, septate, hyaline hyphe, central portion formed of a very 
lax weft, which becomes dense and interwoven again to form 
the cortex; asci cylindrical, wall thick, apex rounded, not 
coloured by iodine; spores 8, obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, 
elliptic-fusiform, ends pointed, sometimes apiculate, wall thick, 
smooth, hyaline, continuous, usually 4-guttulate, 28-31 x 12-14 p ; 
paraphyses very slender, scarcely thickened upwards. 
Peziza (Š$ Cochleate) Venezulee, Cooke, Mycogr. p. 120, 
fig. 206 ; Sace. Syll. viii. n. 255. 
On the ground. Venezuela. 
Cooke's figures in * Mycographia' are not correct; there is 
only one specimen in Berkeley's herbarium, which is discoid as 
described above. When dry the substance is thin, and the 
hymenium cracked as in many species of Corticium. The very 
few hyphz forming the central portion of the excipulum (PI. XVI. 
fig. 4 d) causes the hypothecium, c, along with the asci, a, and 
paraphyses, 6, to separate readily from the cortical portion, e. 
The asci measure about 300 x 16 y. 
Under surface of ascophore with slender wrinkles radiating 
from the point of attachment in the dry specimen. 
HELOTIUM AGARICICOLUM, Berk. $ Broome, Fungi of Ceylon, 
n. 959, in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) vol. xiv. (1875) p. 107; 
Sacc. Syll. viii. n. 1037. (Pl. XVII. figs. 26, 27.) 
Gregarious; rather fleshy, pliant when moist, brown when 
dry, closed at first, soon becoming plane or with the extreme 
margin upturned, glabrous; gradually narrowed into a short 
stem-like base, every part dingy purple, 1:5-2:5 mm. across ; 
hypothecium and excipulum consisting of slender, violet-tinged, 
intricately interwoven hyphe, which appear to be imbedded 
in mucilage when moist; asci narrowly cylindrical, pedicel 
slender; spores 8, obliquely l-seriate, elliptic-oblong, often 
