502 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
when soaked in water, are pale brown, but this may be due to 
age and preservatives. On the label Peters says, “ white at 
first.” 
Peziza RHYTIDIA, Berk. in Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zeland. vol. ii. 
p. 200, tab. ev. fig. 6 (1855) ; Sace. Syll. viii. n. 331. (PI. XVI. 
figs. 17, 18.) 
Gregarious; ascophore subglobose and closed at first, then 
expanding and becoming cup-shaped, margin even or irregular, 
for some time incurved ; substance thin, whitish, pliant, 1:5-5 
cm. diameter, entirely blackish, often with a tinge of purplish- 
red; disc concave, even, or rugulose and cracked when old; 
externally minutely but densely velvety, ornamented with anas- 
tomosing, raised ribs which disappear towards the margin; stem 
variable in length, stout, lacunose like the outside of the asco- 
phore, velvety or sometimes almost strigose, 1-5 cm. long, some- 
times almost absent and expanded at the base ; ascophore formed 
of slender, intricately interwoven hyphx, which become tinged 
brown and parenchymatous at the cortex, finally running out 
into a densely interwoven weft of brown, septate hyphe forming 
the external velvety pile; asci cylindrical, apex obtuse, not blue 
with iodine, wall thick; spores 8, l-seriate, hyaline, smooth, 
continuous, obliquely elliptical and very slightly curved, 25 x 
10-11 x; paraphyses numerous, very slender, sometimes branched. 
Peziza campylospora, Berk. in Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zeland. 
vol. ii. p. 200 (1855). 
Macropodia campylospora, Saec. Syll. viii. n. 640. 
Rhizina reticulata, Berk. & Broome, in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
(Bot.) vol. xiv. (1875) p. 103; Sace. Syll. viii. n. 183. 
Peziza (Geopyzis) cinereo-nigra, Berk. & Broome, Fungi of 
Brisbane, n. 56, in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. II. (Bot.) vol. i. (1876) 
p- 404, tab. 46. figs. 16-18. 
Geopyxis cinereo-nigra, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 218. 
On decayed wood, frequently on wood buried in the ground. 
New Zealand, Bay of Islands (Dr. Hooker); Banks of Kawatan 
iu the interior (Colenso, nn. 2554 & 5053); Australia, Genoa 
River (E. Header); Ceylon (Thwaites, n. 821); Neilgherries 
(E. S. Berkeley). 
Examination of the type specimens shows that the four 
species enumerated above are identical in structure; the differ- 
ences enumerated by Berkeley being due to differences in age 
and size only. 
