BERKELEY S TYPES OF FUNGI. 505 
hypothecium and excipulum formed of slender, densely inter- 
woven hyphæ, which become parallel externally and run out into 
clavate tips; asci cylindrical, apex somewhat truncate, 150 x 
11-12 u; spores 8, 1-seriate, hyaline, persistently smooth, epi- 
spore rather thick, 8-10 u diameter; paraphyses slender, cylin- 
drical, sometimes very slightly thickened at the extreme apex, 
which is often slightly curved, rather longer than the asci. 
Barlæa globifera, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 431. 
-Exsicc. Fung. Cub. Wright. n. 669. 
The type specimen was collected on sandy ground in Cuba by 
Wright (nn. 282 & 645); Ceylon (Thwaites, n. 1060). 
PEZIZA SPHJEROPLEA, Berk. § Cooke, in Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. 
Sc. (1875) p. 289. (Pl. XVII. fig. 6.) 
Gregarious, sessile, rather fleshy, globose and closed at first, 
then expanding until almost or quite plane; margiu sometimes 
wavy, entirely clear, deep yellow, ‘5-1 em. across; hypo- 
thecium and excipulum formed of densely interwoven hyaline 
hyphe, which pass into a cortex of large polygonal cells, the 
external ones brownish, and giving origin below the margin to 
stout, brown, septate hyphz which fix the plant to the ground ; 
asci cylindrical, apex truncate, about 150 x 14-15 pu; spores 8, 
l-seriate, hyaline, persistently smooth, 13-14 p diameter; para- 
physes slender, very slightly thickened upwards, delicately 
septate. 
Peziza globifera, Cooke, Mycogr. p. 21. 
Barlea globifera, var. spheroplea, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 431. 
On the ground, “ Car. Inf. nn. 1991 & 2974." No collector's 
name. 
Readily distinguished from Peziza globifera by the larger 
spores and the presence of hyphz on the outside of the asco- 
phore; these spring sometimes so near to the margin as to 
suggest the genus Spherospora rather than Barlea of Saccardo's 
arrangement. 
PEZIZA EXASPERATA, Berk. & Curt. N. Amer. Fung. n. 716, 
in Grevillea, iii. (1875) p. 152; Cooke, in Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. 
Sc. (March 1875); Cooke, Mycogr. p. 15, fig. 21. (Pl. XVII. 
figs. 1, 2.) 
Scattered, rarely crowded, sessile, globose and closed at first, 
then broadly open, but having the thick obtuse margin perma- 
