BERKELEY 8 TYPES OF FUNGI. 481 
Ascophore flabellate or broadly obovate, narrowed into a very 
short, flattened, stem-like point of attachment; substance rather 
thin, margin at first involute, then becoming almost plane, but 
the extreme edge nearly always permanently incurved; disc 
brown, even, becoming cracked when dry, externally pale, almost 
or quite glabrous, often more or less rugulose, about 2°5 cm. 
broad and long; hypothecium and excipulum formed of inter- 
woven hyphe, which in the last-named structure are combined to 
form an open spongy structure, becoming densely interwoven 
and tinged brown in the cortical portion; asci cylindrical, apex 
rounded and not blue with iodine; spores 8, obliquely 1-seriate, 
continuous, hyaline, often 2-guttulate, smooth, elliptical, slightly 
inequilateral, 28-30 x 12-13 u; paraphyses slender, slightly 
thickened and tinged brown at the tips. 
Peziza (S Discina) hirneoloides, Berk. & Curt. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. ( Bot.) vol. x. (1869) p. 365; Cooke, Mycogr. p. 127, fig. 220; 
Saec. Syll. viii. n. 358, 
Exsice. Fungi Cub. Wrightiani, n. 661. 
Growing on rotten wood and branches. Cuba (Wright, nn. 
661, 662, 659, & 236); Africa,“ Tropic of C., in dense jungle "' 
(Nelson); Clarence River, Australia ( Beckler, n. 6). 
The type specimens prove the correctness of the synonymy 
given above. There is some doubt as to the colour when fresh, 
as this was not mentioned by any of the collectors. P. hirneo- 
loides is coloured dingy orange by Cooke in * Mycographia,’ but 
is described by Berkeley as having the dise red. Colour, how- 
ever, is not necessary for the recognition of this remarkable 
species. Tbe name P. dochmia has 1 page priority over P. hirneo- 
loides. 
Peziza (Š$ DISCINA) INÆQUALIS, Berk. & Curt. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. ( Bot.) vol. x. (1869) p. 365; Cooke, Mycogr. fig. 204 (very 
inaccurate; the outside of the ascophore is whitish, not orange as 
represented, and the spores are too narrow); Sace. Syll. viii. 
n. 258. 
Sessile, margin at first incurved, gradually expanding until 
almost or quite plane, often wavy or inclined to be cochleate, 
rather fleshy, 5-8 cm. across; disc even, deep orange, much 
cracked when dry, externally whitish, adpressedly tomentose, 
shortly narrowed to a central point of attachment ; hypothecium 
narrow, yellowish, of very densely interlaced hyphæ ; these become 
