BERKELEY S TYPES OF FUNGI, 483 
with minute hemispherical warts, 25-28 x 12-14; paraphyses 
slender, septate, slightly expanded at the tips. 
-Ewsicc. Fungi Cubenses Wrightiani, n. 658. 
On rotten logs in dense palm-woods. Cuba (Wright, n. 212). 
As remarked by Berkeley, the present species resembles a 
Psilopezia (= Rhizina) in being quite plane and dingy in colour, 
but differs from the last-named genus in the free and more or 
less upraised margin of the ascophore. Thin, cartilaginous, and 
almost translucent when dry, and in this condition the hymeniuin 
is minutely granulated when scen under a good lens. 
Peziza (§ DISCINA) LECHRIA, Berk. & Broome, in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. (Bot.) vol. xiv. (1875) p. 103; Cooke, Mycogr. p. 128, 
tig. 2 2. 
Ascophore sessile, but narrowed to a very short, more or less 
lateral point of attachment, oblique, margin usually incurved, 
substance somewhat gelatinous and rather thin, rigid when dry ; 
disc bay, externally darker and minutely granulose, 1-2 em. high, 
about 1 em. broad; hypothecium formed of deusely interwoven 
hyphe, which become loosely arranged and form a spongy hypo- 
thecium, becoming dense again in the cortex, which gives otf little 
groups of cells to form the granular exterior; asci cylindrical, 
apex rounded, not blue with iodine; spores 8, l-seriate, hyaline, 
smooth, continuous, elliptical, ends rather narrowed, then trun- 
cate, 16-18 x 9; paraphyses slender, septate, slightly thickened 
and brown at the tips. 
Otidea lechria, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 360. 
On very rotten wood. Peradeniya, Ceylon (Thwaites, n. 111). 
Distinguished by the oblique form aud subgelatinous *on- 
sistency of the ascophore. 
Peziza (Š HUMARIA) EPITERICHA, Berk. in Hook. Lond. Journ. 
Bot. vol. ii. (18143) p. 516. (Pl. XVIII. fig. 22.) 
Gregarious or crowded ; sessile, attached by a broad base from 
whieh stout, brownish, septate hyphs extend into the sub- 
stratum; entirely dark red, fleshy, the thick margin and for some 
distance down the outside of tue ascophore glabrous; at first 
closed, finally expanding until the dise is only slightly concave, 
often irregular in form due to lateral pressure, 1- 1:6 mm. across ; 
entirely parenchymatous; cells irregularly polygonal, and in- 
creasing in size from the hypothecium to the cortex, where they 
