492 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
PEzizA.(SSaRcoscyPHA) MARGARITACEA, Berk. in herb.; 
Cooke, Mycogr. p. 73, fig. 132; Grevillea, vol. iii. (1875) fip. 219 
(ascus and spores). 
Lachnea margaritacea, Sacc. Syll. viii. n. 700; Cooke, Handb. 
Austral. Fungi, p. 261, fig. 155. 
Examinations of type-specimens show that the two species 
named above are synonyms of each other, and further that both 
are identical with the old well-known species, Peziza scutellata, 
Linn. Fl. Suec. ed. 2, no. 1272, p. 458 (1755). 
Peztza (Š SARCOSCYPHA) ALPHITODES, Berk. im Grevillea, 
vol. iii. (1875) p. 153 ; Cooke, Mycogr. p. 58, fig. 101. (Pl. XVI. 
fig. 16.) 
Gregarious, stipitate; ascophore closed at first, then hemi- 
spherical or saucer-shaped, thin, margin minutely fimbriate under 
a lens, otherwise glabrous or even, entirely pallid or pale tan 
(when dry), 3-4 mm. across; stem slender, often wavy, smooth, 
up to 1 em. long ; cortex parenchymatous, cells narrow and elon- 
gated, running out at the margin into cylindrical, obtuse hyphe, 
which are often minutely rough externally with particles of lime, 
60-80 x 5-64; asci cylindrie-clavate, apex slightly narrowed, 
not blue with iodine, 8-spored; spores irregularly 2-seriate, 
narrowly cylindric-fusiform, hyaline, continuous, smooth, 10-15 x 
2°54; paraphyses filiform. 
Sarcoscypha alphitodes, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 635. 
On bark among moss. Boston, U.S.A. (Murray, n. 6230). 
Berkeley states that the ascophore and stem are “slightly 
hispid." This character I could not discover, the plant appear- 
ing to be perfectly glabrous with the exception of the margin. 
Cooke's figure in * Mycographia,’ purporting to be natural size, is 
too large, as are also the spores. Belongs to the genus Ciboria. 
Peziza (Š SARCOSCYPHA) sEMITOSTA, Berk. $ Curt. N. Amer. 
Fung. n. 723, in Grevillea, vol. iii. (1875) p. 153. (Pl. XVI. 
fig. 19.) 
Solitary or in small clusters; ascophore at first globose and 
closed, then expanding, the margin remaining for some time 
incurved ; substance thin, whitish; dise dark brown or bay, 
often cracking when mature, externally brown, densely pilose, 
running out into a more or less elongated, stout, rugulose, stem- 
hke base, 3-4 cm. across; hypothecium and excipulum formed 
of thick-walled, colourless, closely interlaced hyphæ 5-6 p thick ; 
