DECADES OF FUNGI. 71 
69. Peziza Drummondii. n. sp.; media, cupulæformis ses- 
silis, subtus costis validis terram intrantibus suffulta, spa- 
dicea; hymenio brunneo. (Tab. II. f. 10).— Drumm. n. 183. 
On the ground. 
Cup 1 of an inch broad, sessile, bright brown, farinaceous, 
supported beneath by strong compressed ribs, which pene- 
trate into the soil, and when dry are exceedingly hard and 
almost horny. Hymenium brown. Asci linear elongated 
slightly attenuated below; spores elliptic. 
Tab. II. f£. 10. Ascus of P. Drummondii, with sporidia ; 
highly magnified. 
A very pretty species, allied to Pez. Acetabulum. A spe- 
cies on wood, marked n. 210, was found. by Mr. Drummond, 
allied to P. cochleata, and possibly a form of it. 
* P. melaloma, A. and S.—Drumm. n. 189. 
On burnt earth and charcoal. 
* P. rutilans, Fr.— Drumm. n. 190. 
On the ground. 
There is also another Peziza, n. 186; apparently P. appla- 
nata, Fr. 
* Peziza scutellata, L. 
* Aseobolus furfucaceus, P. 
On cow dung, with another very minute species, which 1 
cannot determine. 
* Spheeria punctata, Sow.— Drumm. n. 187. 
On horsedung. 3 
The disk in the Swan River specimens is reddish, and the 
perithecia more prominent than usual, but there is no specific 
difference, 
* S. rubricosa, Fr. El. 2, p. 63.— Drumm. n. 201. 
On dead wood. 
As the specimens grew on dead wood, they are more freely 
developed than those which I possess on bark from Guiana. 
The wood is tinged of a pale lilac; there is a cottony lilac- 
mycelium, and the stroma is flat. In old specimens the — 
ostiola are much elongated, and project beyond the stroma, 
There is no difference in the asci or sporidia. 5 ee c E 
