482 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
hyaline and looser to form the excipulum, becoming densely packed 
and coloured to form the cortex, many of the cells running out in 
groups to form the tomentoso-granular exterior ; asci cylindrical, 
apex rounded and not blue with iodine, narrowed below into a 
slender pedicel, wall rather thick, about 390 x 15-16 p; spores 8, 
l-seriate, hyaline, smooth, continuous, inzquilaterally elliptical, 
often guttulate, 25 x 11-12 p ; paraphyses slender, septate, only 
slightly thickened at the apex. 
Apparently having grown on rotten wood. Cuba (Wright, 
n. 187). 
Superficially closely resembling Peziza aurantia, but distin- 
guished by the smooth spores. Not a Phillipsia as suggested 
by Berkeley. 
Peziza (Š DiscrNA) PALMICOLA, Berk. $ Curt. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. ( Bot.) vol. x. (1869) p. 364; Cooke, Mycogr. p. 145, fig. 245. 
Sessile, fixed by a contracted central point, margin at first 
incurved, finally expanded and often more or less wavy or broken 
at the margin, substance rather thin ; disc pale brown, externally 
whitish and slightly rugulose or granular, 3-6 cm. across; hypo- 
thecium, excipulum, aud cortex pseudoparenehymatous, formed 
of hyphe with vesicular inflations, the hypothecium small-celled 
and very compact, the remainder with very large cells; asci 
cylindrical, apex slightly truncate, the empty and shrivelled ones 
alone tinged blue with iodine, about 260 x12 u; spores 8, 
obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, smooth, elliptical, ends 
obtuse, 15 x 8-9; paraphyses slender, septate, clavate at the 
tips. 
On rotten palms. Cuba (Wright, n. 300). 
Allied to Peziza repanda, but differing in the smaller spores 
and in the larger vesicular cells forming the excipulum. 
Prziza (Š DISCINA) apnata, Berk. Ë Curt. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. (Bot.) vol. x. (1869) p. 364; Cooke, Mycogr. p. 192, fig. 259. 
Sessile, plane, closely adnate by a broad base, the margin alone 
free and slightly upraised ; dise even, umber- or blackish-brown, 
1:5-2:5 em. across; hypothecium, excipulum, and cortex con- 
sisting of densely interwoven hyaline hyphe, homogeneous ; asci 
cylindrical, apex rounded, the old and empty ones alone pale blue 
throughout the length with iodine, about 270 x 14-16 u ; spores 8, 
obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, epispore densely covered 
