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which run down to the base of the ascophore and into the ground, 
brown; disc brighter in colour, concave, up to 1 cm. across, 
flexible and cartilaginous when moist, rigid when dry; hypo- 
thecium and excipulum formed of interwoven, hyaline, septate 
much-branched hyphae, the first mentioned densest, and passing 
into a brown parenchymatous cortex, many of the cells projecting 
in clusters to form the rough exterior; asci cylindrical, apex 
truncate, not blue with iodine, about 300 x 12 u; spores 8, ellip- 
tical, ends obtuse, hyaline, smooth, continuous, 15-16 X8 p, 
obliquely l-seriate; paraphyses slender, tips slightly thickened 
and brownish. 
On the ground. Swan River, Australia (Drummond, n. 183); 
near Melbourne, Australia (Reader). 
Cooke's figures quoted above are not good, the ascophore is 
mueh more expanded than in the type specimens. 
Peziza CHRYSOTRICHA, Berk. in Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zeland. 
vol. ii. p. 201 (1856); Handb. N. Zeal. Flora, p. 629. 
Gregarious, sessile, erumpent, globose and closed at first, then 
expanding until saucer-shaped, closed by the infolding of oppo- 
site sides when dry, 2-3 mm. across, entirely deep orange-yellow; 
dise even; externaly minutely woolly, due to the presence of 
cylindrical, septate, wavy, interlaced hairs, which are sometimes 
rough with minute particles of oxalate of lime, 50-60 X 4; 
hypothecium, excipulum, and cortex formed of slender, densely 
interwoven, septate hyphæ, which pass out to form the external 
hairs; asci cylindric-clavate, apex obtuse, not blue with iodine, 
pedicel stout, 90-100 x 11-12 p; spores irregularly 2-seriate, 
continuous, hyaline, smooth, narrowly elliptic-fusiform, ends 
acute, slightly inequilateral or bent, 19-20x5 p; paraphyses 
very slender, cylindrical, tips not at all thickened. 
Trichopeziza chrysotricha, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 1696. 
On dead twigs. Waikare Lake, N. Island, New Zealand 
(Colenso). 
Readily distinguished by the deep orange colour of every part 
and the fusiform narrow spores. 
Peziza macrotis, Berk. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. vol. Hi. 
(1851) p. 203. (Pl. XVII. fig. 31.) 
Ascophores gregarious (5-50), forming the terminations to the 
branches of a stout stem-like base, subspathulate or hare's-ear- 
shaped, 3-8 em. long, 1- 2:5 em. broad, edges more or less involute, 
