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BERKELEY 8 TYPES OF FUNGI. 489 
On sticks. Dolosbagey and Peradeniya, Ceylon (Thwaites, 
n. 579). 
The present species is a true Mollisia, growing on wood, and 
not a Humaria. 
Prziza (Š GEOPYXIS) CRENULATA, Berk. § Broome in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. (Bot.) vol. xiv. (1875) p. 104; Cooke, Mycogr. 
fig. 270. 
Gregarious ; sessile or narrowed into a very short, central, 
stem-like point, rather thin, glabrous, closed at first, gradually 
expanding until plane, usually umbilicate, margin often remain- 
ing slightly incurved, frequently slightly irregular or crenulate ; 
disc pale orange, externally paler, rugulose, the wrinkles spread- 
ing from the point of attachment of the asccphore, 4 mm. to 
1 em. across; hypothecium, excipulum, and cortex composed of 
slender, hyaline, thick-walled, densely interwoven hyphe ; asci 
cylindrical, apex obtuse, about 180x 10; spores 8, l-seriate, 
hyaline, continuous, smooth, elliptical, 17-20 x 7-10 p, often 
2-guttulate; paraphyses numerous, very slender, sometimes 
branched, tips not thickened. 
Humaria crenulata, Saec. Syll. viii. n. 511. 
On fallen branches. Peradeniya, Ceylon (Thwaites, nn. 8 & 
579). 
A true Helotium, having the characteristic structure of the 
ascophore present in that genus, and growing on wood. One of 
the largest and finest species included in the genus. The margin 
of the ascophore is often minutely crenulate, but not constantly 
so as might be imagined from the specific name. 
Peziza (Š GEOPYXIS) EMARGINATA, Berk. $ Broome in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. ( Bot.) vol. xiv. (1875) p. 104. (Pl. XVI. fig. 6.) 
Plane, discoid, with a very slightly upraised margin, every where 
glabrous, somewhat fleshy; disc deep orange, becoming much 
cracked when dry, externally paler, wrinkled and corrugated irre- 
gularly when dry, due to contraction, attached by a broad base, 
up to 3 em. across ; hypothecium formed of densely interwoven, 
hyaline, septate hyphe about 4 u thick ; these form an exceedingly 
open weft in the excipulum, and becoming densely crowded and 
parallel to form the cortex, thickness everywhere about equal ; 
asci cylindrical, apex obtuse, not blue with iodine, narrowed 
below into a somewhat slender pedicel, 8-spored, about 300x 
14-15 p; spores uniseriate, hyaline, continuous, smooth, elliptic- 
