BERKELEY S TYPES OF FUNGI. 511 
brownish with a tinge of flesh-colour, or sometimes tinged lilac, 
even; externally densely tomentose, hairs pale brown, septate, 
obtuse, 53-70 x 12 p, 1°5-2°5 em. across ; excipulum and cortex 
formed of irregular, interwoven hyphe, which run out into the 
external hairs; asci cylindrical, apex obtuse and not blue with 
iodine, 80-90 x 5 u; spores 8, 1-seriate, hyaline, smooth, conti- 
nuous, elliptical, ends obtuse, 7x3 pq; paraphyses slender, 
scarcely thickened at the tip. 
On very rotten wood and on the ground, in which case it pro- 
bably springs from decayed vegetable matter. Ceylon (Thwaites, 
nn. 71 & 1054); India (Colonel Hobson). 
Remarkable for the very small asci and spores, also for the 
structure of the exterior of the ascophore, which is too decidedly 
tomentose for the genus Peziza. 
PEZIZA KERGUELENSIS, Berk. in Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. p. 451, 
pl. 164. n. iii. figs. 1, 3, 4, 5 (1847); Cooke, Mycogr. p. 74, 
fig. 134. 
Ascophore sessile, applanate, almost plane, the margin only 
free from the substratum and slightly raised, rather fleshy, 
1-2 cm. broad; disc crimson, externally paler, and scantily 
furnished with thick-walled, septate, pointed, dark brown hairs, 
50-100 x 8-10 u; cortex parenchymatous, cells large; asci cylin- 
drieal, apex blunt, not blue with iodine; spores 8, l-seriate, 
hyaline, smooth, continuous, broadly elliptical, ends obtuse, con- 
tents coarsely granular, 21-23 x 16-17 u; paraphyses septate, 
slender, apex pyriform, 8-10 y thick. 
Lachnea kerguelensis, Sacc. Syll. viii. n. 710. 
On bare boggy earth near the sea, growing amongst Conferve. 
Kerguelen's Land, Christmas Harbour (Dr. Hooker); Betsy Cove 
and Royal Sound (‘ Challenger’ Exp.); New Zealand (Berggren, 
n. 274; Dr. Hooker). 
Distinguished amongst many close allies by the large asco- 
phore, scanty and comparatively small external hairs, and the 
very broad, smooth spores. 
Prziza SPRAGUEI, Berk. $ Curt. in herb. Cooke, fide Bull. Buff. 
Acad. Se. 1870, p. 289; Cooke, Mycogr. fig. 308. (Pl. XVIII. 
fig. 1.) 
Sessile, broadly attached to the substratum by the downy 
rhizoids, extreme margin free, downy, slightly upraised (when 
dry at least); disc pale reddish-brown, 1:5—2:5 cm. across; hypo- 
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