500 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
This species was founded on specimens collected in Tasmania ; 
Australian localities were afterwards added, and finally British 
specimens were collected, agreeing in every particular with those 
from the Antipodes. 
Peziza succosa, Berk. in Ann. § Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. vi. (1841) 
p. 358, t. 10. fig. 5; Cooke, Mycogr. p. 144, fig. 243 ; Massee, Brit. 
Fungus- Flora, iv. p. 438. 
Sessile, closed, and with the margin incurved at first, then 
cup-shaped, usually regular, but sometimes more or less coch- 
leate, rather fleshy, almost translucent when moist; dise pale 
waxy-brown, externally pale and minutely scurfy, 2-4 em. across ; 
giving out a yellow juice when broken; excipulum consisting of 
stout, somewhat nodulose, interwoven hyphæ ; asci cylindrical, 
apex rounded, not blue with iodine, or a very slight tinge only 
when old and empty, about 300x14 u; spores 8, l-seriate, 
hyaline, continuous, elliptical, rather coarsely warted, 19-21 x 
11-12 p; paraphyses septate, becoming gradually clavate in the 
upper third of their length. 
Galactinia succosa, Sacc. Syll. viii. n. 397. 
-Exsicc. Cooke, Fung. Brit. Exs. ser. II. n. 650; Thuemen, 
Myc. Univ. n. 1411; Roum. Fung. Gall. n. 3932; Roum. Fung, 
Sel. Exs. n. 5335; Phillips, Elv. Brit. n. 10. 
On the ground in woods, mostly solitary. 
England (Berkeley, Cooke, Phillips); Belgium (Libert); 
Switzerland (Morthier); France (Sarrazin, Roumeguere); New 
England (Sprague, n. 5327) ; Lower Carolina (Ravenel, n. 3279). 
PEz1ZA SALMONICOLOR, Berk. $ Broome, in Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist. ser. II. vol. xviii. (1866) p. 124; Cooke, Mycogr. fig. 48. 
Gregarious ; sessile, seated on a broad base and attached to 
the substratum by hyaline, septate hyphe, which spring from 
the basal cortical cells; fleshy, concave, then plane or even 
slightly convex, margin adpressed ; disc salmon-colour, 2-3 mm. 
diameter; excipulum tinged red, parenchymatous, cells polygonal 
or almost circular, 12-20 p diameter ; asci rather broadly clavate, 
narrowed to a slender base, apex somewhat truncate, about 
180x16 p; spores 8, irregularly 2-seriate in the widest part of 
the ascus, hyaline, smooth, continuous, elliptical, ends obtuse, 
18-22 x 10-12»; paraphyses slender, septate, slightly clavate at 
the tip. 
