516 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
blunt margin; asci narrowly clavate, apex narrowed ; spores 8, 
irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, narrowly cylindrie-fusiform, some- 
times 2-guttulate, 14-17 x 2:5-3 p ; paraphyses very slender, cylin- 
drical, hyaline. 
Tapesia mutabilis, Phillips, Brit. Disc. p. 278; Sace. Syll. viii. 
n. 1553. 
Mollisia mutabilis, Massee, Fungus-Flora, vol. iv. p. 496. 
On dead leaves of Aira cespitosa and other grasses. Derry 
Hill, Wilts. 
A typical Mollisia, and not a Tapesia, as clearly pointed out 
by Berkeley in a paragraph following his description of the 
species, which is as follows :—'* We have not placed this curious 
species amongst the Tapesic, as the cups are essentially solitary. 
When old it bears some resemblance to pale forms of P. atrata 
or P. palustris.” 
PEZIZA SORDESCENS, Berk. § Curt. in Grevillea, vol. iii. (1875) 
p- 150; Cooke, Mycogr. fig. 191. 
Ascophore stipitate, subglobose, and the margin incurved at 
first, then expanding until almost plane, often slightly lobed or 
irregular in outline, rather fleshy, very rigid when dry; disc 
bright brown, even, or slightly nodulose towards the base; ex- 
ternally minutely granulato-pubescent, at first golden yellow, 
becoming dark with age; 3-4 cm. across; stem about 2 cm. long, 
stout, cylindrical, pubescent and yellowish, springing from a 
spreading mycelium; hypothecium and excipulum formed of 
hyaline, septate, irregularly inflated, interwoven hyphe, which 
pass into a coloured pseudoparenchymatous cortex, the cells of 
which run out in groups to form the granular exterior of the 
ascophore ; asci cylindrical, apex obtuse and not blue with iodine, 
about 160 x 10 u ; spores 8, 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, smooth, 
elliptical, often 2-3-guttulate, 14-15 x7; paraphyses slender, 
septate, coloured at the slightly clavate tips. 
On soil, over which a thin mycelium spreads and binds the 
particles. New England, United States (Murray, n. 5327). 
Peziza Drummonnt1, Berk.in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. iv. 
(1845) p. 71, tab. 2. fig. 10; Cooke, Mycogr. fig. 219; Sace. 
Syll. viii. n. 279. 
Scattered or gregarious, sessile, globose and closed at first, 
then opening, but the aperture remaining small, externally fur- 
furaceous or slightly warted and traversed by contorted ribs, 
