490 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
oblong, ends truncate, 25-30 x9-12 u; paraphyses very slender, 
not thickened at the tips. 
On rotten wood. Central Province, Ceylon (Thwaites, n. 1052). 
In describing the present species, Berkeley gives the habitat 
as “ on the ground or on very rotten wood.” All the specimens 
in Berkeley’s herbarium have grown on wood. 
Superficially closely resembling Phillipsia Venezuele, Berk. & 
Curt., but sufficiently distinct in the form of the spores and 
structure of the cortex. 
Peziza (Š$ GEopxxis) GEASTER, Berk. $ Broome in Ann. $ 
Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. IJE. vol. vii. (1861) p. 449, & ser. III. 
vol. xviii. (1866) p. 125, t. 4. fig. 26; Cooke, Mycogr. fig. 144. 
Lachnea Geaster, Phillips, Brit. Dise. p. 210; Sace. Syll. 
vill. n. 693. 
Sepultaria sepulta, Massee, Fungus-Flora, iv. p. 389. 
An examination of the type of this species proves it to be 
identical with Peziza sepulta, Fries, Nov. Symb. Myc. p. 126 
(1851). 
Berkeley’s specimens are slightly smaller than those of P. 
sepulta, sent by Fries to Berkeley, and now in Herb. Kew, but 
the two certainly belong to the same species, and Fries’ name 
has priority. 
The British specimens were collected at Wentworth by Mr. J. 
Henderson. 
Peziza (Š Gropyxis) INSITITIA, Berk. $ Curt. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. ( Bot.) vol. xiv. (1875) p.103 ; Cooke, Mycogr. p. 116, fig. 201. 
(Pl. XVI. figs. 26, 27.) 
Gregarious; ascophore rather deeply cup-shaped, narrowed at 
the base, 1-15 em. high aud wide; substance thin, entirely 
straw-colour when young, sometimes becoming darker with age ; 
externally also the stem clothed with flattened, acuminate, scale- 
like hairs, each composed of a bundle of slender hyphz; scales 
on stem and exterior of cup soon disappearing, those at the 
margin persistent, 2-3 mm. long, erect ; stem slender, sometimes 
longitudinally wrinkled, variable in length, 1-3 em. ; excipulum 
homogeneous throughout, composed of very slender, intrieately 
interwoven hyphe ; asci cylindrical, apex rounded and not blue 
with iodine, attenuated below into a long pedicel, averaging 
400 x15 u; spores 8, obliquely l-seriate, continuous, hyaline, 
smooth, narrowly elliptic-fusiform, ends pointed, slightly inzqui- 
