498 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
8-10 individuals, densely crowded or overlapping, and seated on 
an extended, brownish-black subiculum formed of stout, brown, 
septate hyphe ; ascophores 1-3 mm. diameter, circular in out- 
line when isolated, but usually irregular from mutual pressure, 
very thin, at first closed, but soon becoming quite plane, entirely 
black ; cortex parenchymatous, cells polygonal, brown, 10-12 p 
diameter, the lower ones giving origin to stout hyphæ which 
pass into the subieulum ; asci narrowly cylindric-clavate, apex 
rounded; spores 8, 1-seriate, continuous, smooth, hyaline, nar- 
rowly cylindrie-fusoid, 12-1335; paraphyses numerous, 
slender, agglutinated together. 
Tapesia scariosa, Saec. Syll. viii. n. 1544. 
On dead branches in moist places. Lower Carolina (Ravenel, 
n. 1086). 
Closely allied to Peziza mollisioides, Schw., but differing in the 
somewhat larger ascophores and spores. May possibly prove to 
be only a form of the last-named species. The spores are in 
some specimens tinged olive, but whether this is normal or the 
result of poisoning, &c., I cannot determine. 
PEZIZA vERRUCULOSA, Berk. & Curt. in Proc. Amer. Acad. 
vol. iv. (1860) p. 127; Cooke, Mycogr. fig. 288. (Pl. XVII. 
fig. 32.) 
Ascophore stipitate, subglobose and closed when young, then 
cup-shaped, finally becoming almost or quite plane; rather 
fleshy and rigid; entirely blackish-purple; dise even, cracked 
when dry ; externally and the margin granular, due to the pre- 
sence of densely crowded, coloured, obtuse, rather closely septate 
hairs, often constricted at the septa, 80-100 x 9-12 p, these are 
collected in groups and form the granules; 1-11 em. across; 
stem short and stout, sometimes almost absent, minutely granu- 
lar; hypothecium, excipulum, and cortex formed of hyaline, 
densely interwoven septa which pass abruptly into the coloured,. 
external hairs ; asci cylindrical, wall thick, apex rounded and 
not blue with iodine; spores 8, l-seriate, continuous, hyaline, 
smooth, broadly elliptical, ends obtuse, 12-13x7-8p; para- 
physes slender, septate, coloured at the slightly thickened tips. 
Geopyais verruculosa, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 227. 
On stony hills. Arakamtchetchene Island, Behring Straits 
(U.S. North Pacific Expl. Exp. ; Wright coll. n. 150). 
