480 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
By a slip of the pen, Saccardo gives the spore measurements 
18 p long instead of 8 p. The present species is allied to Peziza 
flavo-tingens, Berk. & Broome, in the structure of the ascophore 
and the pulverulent exterior. 
Peziza (Š DiscrNA) RADICULOSA, Berk. & Broome, Fung. Ceylon, 
n. 923, in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) vol. xiv. (1875) p. 103; Cooke, 
Mycogr. p. 61, fig. 107. (Pl. XVI. fig. 12.) 
Ascophore subglobose, then expandiug until nearly plane, 
rather fleshy, entirely orange-colour; disc slightly concave, even, 
externally minutely downy, becoming bald with age, sending down 
a more or less fibrous, rooting, stem-like base, up to 1 cm. across ; 
flesh yellow; hypothecium formed of densely interwoven thick- 
walled hyphæ 4 p thick, these become abruptly thickened in the 
excipulum and cortex to 7-8 u and densely interlaced; asci 
cylindrical, apex obtuse, not blue with iodine, 8-spored ; spores 
continuous, hyaline, smooth, elliptical, obliquely 1-seriate in the 
ascus, 7 x 3°5 u; paraphyses filiform, tips not thickened. 
Sarcoscypha radiculosa, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 625. 
On soil. Ceylon (Thwaites, n. 10). 
The ascophores, when expanded, lie flat on the soil. A very 
distinet species, known by the small spores, structure of the 
ascophore, and rooting, stem-like base. 
Peziza (Š DISCINA) SARMENTORUM, Berk. $ Broome in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. (Bot.) vol. xiv. (1875) p. 102; Cooke, Mycogr. fig. 267. 
Scattered or gregarious; sessile, globose and closed at first, 
then gradually expanding until almost or quite plane, rather thin 
and somewhat gelatinous when moist, 4-16 mm. across ; entirely 
pale tan-colour (when dry); hymenium slightly wrinkled or 
veined; externally minutely scurfy, due to the outgrowth of 
groups of the cortical cells; excipulum entirely parenchymatous, 
hypothecium brown; asci cylindrical, apex somewhat truncate, 
about 180 x 11 u, becoming blue with iodine; spores 8, obliquely 
l-seriate, elliptic-oblong, ends obtuse, continuous, even, hyaline, 
1-2-guttulate,18 x 94; paraphyses rather stout, slightly thickened 
upwards, septate. 
On twigs and petioles. Ceylon (Thwaites, n. 3). 
Peziza (Š Discrya) DOCHMIA, Berk. $ Curt. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. ( Bot.) vol. x. (1869) p.364; Cooke, Mycogr. p. 128, fig. 221; 
Suce. Syll. viii. n. 353. 
