518 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
dry and leathery, somewhat cartilaginous when dry, everywhere 
glabrous, liver-colour ; dise with a tinge of purple, much cracked 
when dry, the entire fungus sometimes paler; stem-like base 
corky, stout, short or elongated, 2-8 x 1-2 em. ; hypothecium of 
brown, closely interwoven hyphe; in the excipulum the hyphe 
are colourless and not so densely interlaced, again becoming brown 
and closely compacted in the cortex; asci cylindrical, apex 
rounded, about 200x15 u; spores 8, 1-seriate, hyaline, smooth, 
continuous, elliptical, often slightly inequilateral, 1-3-guttulate, 
24-28 x 11-13 p; paraphyses slender, septate, tips slightly clavate. 
Midotis macrotis, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 2256. 
Wynnea macrotis, Berk. in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) vol. ix. 
(1865) p. 424; Cooke, Mycogr. fig. 94. 
Wynnea gigantea, Berk. l. c. t. 12; Cooke, l. c. fig. 93. 
Midotis gigantea, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 2255. 
On rotten wood, about stumps, &c. Darjeeling, 7500 ft., 
Sikkim (Dr. Hooker, n. 87, with fig.) ; Brazil (Glaziou, n. 20181); 
Solomon Is. (Dr. Guppy); Mexico (Sallé, nn. 30, 178) ; also 
collected in Mexico by Senor Botteri. 
Numerous specimens of both Berkeley's species prove that his 
Wynnea gigantea is identical with Peziza macrotis. Somewhat 
variable in form, sometimes only a few very large hare's-ear- 
shaped ascophores spring from a stout, short, common base ; in 
other specimens the base is elongated and branched, the branchlets 
bearing in some instances scores of comparatively small, often 
spoon-shaped, and sometimes proliferous ascophores. 
Peziza 1RRORATA, Berk. $ Curt. in Grevillea, vol. iii. (1875) 
p- 150; Cooke, Mycogr. p. 150, fig. 254; Sace. Syll. viii. n. 302. 
Sessile and attached by a broad base, then expanding until 
almost plane; substance rather thin, entirely dingy grey with a 
tinge of tan (when dry), externally slightly furfuraceous or 
almost smooth, about 2:5 em. across ; excipulum formed of inter- 
woven hyphz, passing into a pseudoparenchymatous cortex; asci 
cylindrical, apex rounded, about 300 x 12-13 u, not blue with 
iodine, but the hymenial gelatine becoming blue; spores 8, 
obliquely l-seriate, hyaline, continuous, broadly elliptical, ends 
obtuse, thickly studded with small hemispherical warts, 15-18 x 
15 12p; paraphyses rather stout, septate, tips clavate or pyri- 
orm. 
On the ground. Texas (Wright, n. 3138). 
