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are 25-85 p in diameter, the basal cortical cells giving origin to 
the spreading hyphe ; asci cylindrical, apex somewhat truncate, 
not blue with iodine, about 240x18,; spores 8, obliquely 
1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, smooth, elliptical, ends narrowed, 
usually 2-guttulate, 23-25 x 10 u; paraphyses slender, septate, 
expanding into a clavate or pyriform coloured apex, 6-8 p broad. 
Humaria epitricha, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 460. 
On rotten wood. Uitenhage, S. Africa (Zeyher, n. 58). 
Very closely allied to Peziza carbonigena, Berk. (Humaria 
carbonigena, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 506), if in reality distinct, differing 
mainly in the smaller size of the ascophore and larger cortical 
cells. 
Peziza (§ HUMARIA) FLAVOTINGENS, Berk. § Broome, in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. (Bot.) vol. xiv. (1875) p. 104; Cooke, Mycogr. p. 23, 
fig. 38. 
Gregarious; ascophores springing from a spreading, floccose 
mycelium, narrowed below into a short, stem-like base, closed àt 
first, then expanding until saucer-shaped, rather fleshy, entirely 
pale yellow, externally minutely pulverulent or granular, due to 
the projection of groups of cells springing from the cortex, up to 
1 em. across, often smaller; hypothecium, excipulum, and cortex 
formed of rather stout, hyaline, intricately interwoven hyphe ; 
asci narrowly clavate, apex somewhat pointed, about 80x7 y; 
spores 8, obliquely 1-seriate, continuous, hyaline, smooth, ellip- 
ties], 11-12 x 5 u ; paraphyses rather stout, hyaline, with scattered 
inflations, but the apex not consistently thickened. 
Humaria flavotingens, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 501. 
Ceylon. 
I should consider the present species as a typical Peziza. The 
structure and granular exterior of the ascophore are against its 
retention in the genus Humaria. 
Pzzirz4 (Š HvuanrA) MuzrLERI, Berk. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
( Bot.) vol. xiii. (1873) p. 176 ; Cooke, Mycogr. fig. 26. 
Gregarious or sometimes crowded ; sessile, rather fleshy, at first 
closed, gradually expanding until plane, often more or less um- 
bilicate, and margin frequently irregular; disc deep orange or 
red, externally paler, the obtuse margin glabrous, 1-2 mm. dia- 
meter ; cortical cells below the margin giving origin to numerous 
septate hyaline hyphæ, which attach the fungus to the soil; hypo- 
