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parenchymatous; cells irregularly polygonal, rather small, very 
dense in the cortex and running out in groups to form the minute 
external granulations ; asci cylindrical, apex rounded and not blue 
with iodine, but at certain stages the whole of the asci and para- 
physes are tinged blue, 270-300 x 17-18 u; spores 8, obliquely 
l-seriate, hyaline, continuous, smooth at first, but very finely 
but distinctly granular at maturity, often 2-guttulate, 20-24 x 
12-14 u; paraphyses numerous, slender, apex clavate and filled 
with brown colouring-matter. 
Humaria spissa, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 556. 
On the ground. Alabama, U.S.A. (Peters, n. 6074). 
Cooke says (Mycogr. p. 44), * Paraphyses cellular at the tips 
(fig. 79, p) ; but this only means in reality that the colouring- 
matter is in some instances broken up iuto separate portions 
which are not, however, due to the presence of septa. 
I consider the present species to be a Peziza as this genus is 
defined in Brit. Fungus-Fl. vol. iv. p. 424. 
Pzziza (Š Humarta) OREMICOLOR, Berk. in Grevillea, vol. ii. 
(1875) p. 151; Cooke, Mycogr. fig. 232. 
Gregarious or crowded; closed at first, then expanding until 
shallowly saucer-shaped, thin, glabrous, sessile, and fixed by 
a central point, 1-2 mm. diameter, cream-colour ; hypothecium 
and excipulum formed of hyaline interwoven hyphe, which pass 
into a large-celled parenchymatous tissue in the cortex; asci 
cylindrical, apex rounded, about 200 x 10 p; spores 8, obliquely 
l-seriate, continuous, smooth, hyaline, elliptical, ends obtuse, 
13-14 x8 u; paraphyses stout, septate, tips clavate. 
On human dung. Lower Carolina, U.S.A. (Ravenel, n. 1748). 
The paraphyses are unusually thick and distinctly septate. 
The species is a true Humaria, and not an Ascobolus as Berkeley 
thought it might probably prove to be. 
Peziza (S HUMARIA) BELLA, Berk. $ Curt. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. (Bot.) vol. x. (1869) p. 366; Cooke, Mycogr. fig. 53. 
Gregarious; closed at first, then expanding until quite plane, 
the margin remaining very slightly upraised, sometimes rather 
umbilicate, thin, 3-1 cm. across when fully expanded; dise 
orange, externally paler and minutely granular, sessile, and 
attached by a central point; hypothecium formed of very densely 
interwoven slender hyphæ, these form a loose spongy tissue in the 
