520 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
Peziza PHLEBOPHORA, Berk. & Curt. in Ann. § Mag. Nat. Hist. 
ser. III. vol. xviii. (1866) p. 8, pl. 3. figs. 9-11; Cooke, Mycogr. 
p. 126, fig. 217. 
Sessile, but narrowed into a very short stem-like base, becoming 
rather widely expanded and shallowly cup-shaped, usually some- 
what oblique, 1:5-2 cm. across, entirely of a yellowish-brown 
colour, substance rather thin ; hypothecium and excipulum com- 
posed of intricately interwoven hyphæ, which pass into a cortical 
layer of polygonal pale brown cells, 8-12 » diameter; externally 
ornamented with branched ribs or veins, which extend from the 
base of the ascophore and often end in little pits; dise often 
more or less veined; asci narrowly cylindrical, apex obtuse, not 
blue with iodine; spores 8, obliquely 1-seriate, elliptic-oblong, 
continuous, smooth, hyaline, often 2-guttulate, 10-12 x 5-6 yu; 
paraphyses rather stout, septate, apex clavate, 5-6 u thick, straight 
or slightly bent. 
Otidea phlebophora, Phillips, Brit. Dise. p. 55; Sacc. Syll. viii. 
n. 362; Massee, Fungus-Flora, vol. iv. p. 445. 
On dry banks, usually growing singly. King's Cliffe (Berkeley). 
So far as I can ascertain, this species has not been collected 
out of England. There is a specimen under this name in the 
Berkeley Herbarium, Kew, collected in Alabama by Peters, 
n. 4560, and another from Melbourne collected by Mrs. Martin, 
n. 479; but neither of these belong to the present species, and, 
furthermore, do not agree with any described species. 
PEZIZA DARJEELENSIS, Berk. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. vol. iii. 
(1851) p. 202. 
Peziza (Š Cochleate) darjeelensis, Cooke, Mycogr. p. 125, fig. 215. 
Ascophore sessile, closed at first, then expanding, more or less 
cochleate or contorted and split down one side, rather fleshy ; 
disc umber-brown, externally paler and minutely pulverulent, 
4-7 cm. across; hypothecium, excipulum, and cortex paren- 
chymatous, cells very large and polygonal in the cortex; asci 
cylindrical, apex rounded, not blue with iodine, measuring about 
260x10 u; spores obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, 
minutely warted, elliptical, ends obtuse, 14-15 x 8 u; paraphyses 
slender, tips brownish and slightly clavate. 
Otidea darjeelensis, ace. Syll. Suppl. x. n. 4473. 
On the ground. Darjeeling, India (Dr. Hooker) ; Melbourne, 
Australia (Reader, n. 19). 
Closely allied to Otidea alutacea, Massee, but distinguished 
