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smaller and remarkable for their minutely scabrous surface. Those of 
P. repanda are quite smooth. | I have a Peziza from Bristol with larger 
rough spores, which is, I believe, on comparison with French speci- 
mens, P. umbrina, P., a species referred by Fries to P. cochleata, and 
it should seem correctly, for in undoubted P. cochleata the spores are 
rough. They are, however, larger than in the Himalaya species, 
more coarsely granulated, and contain two large nuclei. 
356. P. macrotis, n. s. ; cupulis elongatis obliquis auriformibus basi 
connato-ramosis coriaceo-subcartilagineis hepaticis, extus glabris; hy- 
menio purpurascente. Hook. fil., No. 87, cum ic. 
Has. Onrotten wood. Darjeeling, 7,500 feet. June, July. Abundant. 
Inodorous, dry, firm, leathery, subcartilaginous, varying in size, 
sometimes five inches long, erect, tufted, connate below and thence 
branched. Cups elongated, oblique, auriform, of a bright liver-colour, 
smooth externally, margin subinvolute. Hymenium even, purplish. 
Sporidia oblongo-elliptie, with one side in sm more convex. Nu- 
cleus single in the dry specimens. 
This splendid species is evidently closely allied to P. onotica and 
P. leporina, but it differs not only in colour and its very elongated 
narrow cups, but in its firmer, tougher substance, and the mostly 
connate base. It is one of the finest species of the genus, being ex- 
ceeded in size only by P. Cacabus. ~ 
* P. aurantia, Pers. Hook. fil., No. 34, cum. ic. 
Has. On clay banks. Darjeeling, 7,000 feet. Very abundant 
from June to August, when it dies away. 
‘So conspicuous that every one asks whether you have seen the scar- 
let fungus.” It is precisely the European species, agreeing in the 
verrucose sporidia as in all other points. It is sometimes six inches - 
across. ee 
357. P. geneospora, n.s. media; cupula expansa concaviuscula au- 
rantio-coccinea extus pilis badiis vestita; ascis amplis ; sporidiis oe 
nis ellipticis verrucosis. Hook. fil., No. 132, cum ic. 
Has. On rotten wood. Sinchul, 8,000 feet. October. 
Cup one inch or more across, convex below, expanded, slightly hol- 
lowed out above, scarlet, clothed and fringed with bay-brown septate 
bristles. Asci rather thick, often torulose beneath the sporidia, which - 
are large, elliptic, verrucose, colourless, containing a single nucleus. i 
Paraphyses slender, linear. 
