496 MR. G. MASSEE—REDESCRIPTIONS OF 
Lachnea coprogena, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 735. 
On dung. Brisbane (Bailey). 
Prziza(? DASYSCYPHA) ATRO-CUTRINA, Berk.f§ Broome,in Journ- 
Linn. Soc. ( Bot.) vol. xiv. (1875) p. 106. (Pl. XVIII. figs. 26, 27.) 
Gregarious ; sessile, at first closed, then expanding until 
saucer-shaped, margin permanently erect or slightly incurved ; 
dise blackish, externally pale yellow, minutely pilose, hairs most 
numerous and best developed near the margin, where they are 
arranged in fascicles, which run for some distance down the 
outside of the ascophore as vertical lines; hairs obtuse, septate, 
cylindrical, pale yellow, rough, especially near the apex, with 
minute particles of oxalate of lime, usually curved, 80-120 x 
5-6 u, becoming shorter towards the base of the ascophore ;, 
cortical cells small, narrow, much elongated in the direction from 
base to margin; asci clavate, apex slightly narrowed, not blue 
with iodine, 250 x 9-10 p ; spores 8, irregularly 2-seriate, cylin- 
drical, or the apex sometimes very slightly thickened, and form- 
ing a narrowly clavate shape, hyaline, 3-5-septate at first, finally 
multiseptate, 45-50 x 6 u, straight or slightly curved ; paraphyses 
very slender, not at all thickened at the tips, very numerous. 
Velutaria atro-citrina, Sace. Syll. viii. n. 2019. 
On dead wood. Ceylon (Thwaites, n. 274). 
Almost indistinguishable from Dasyscypha melaxantha (Fr.), 
Massee, under a lens, but very different in its fruit. When 
young the exterior is uniformly pilose, but as the ascophore 
expands the hairs are separated into fascicles, which form a 
minutely toothed margin, and often also forming parallel vertical’ 
ridges on the exterior. This arrangement is not uncommon in 
species having a pilose exterior. 
Peziza (Š TAPESIA) Precor, Berk. $ Broome, in Ann. $ 
Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. II. vol. xiii. (1854) p. 464; Phillips, Brit. 
Dise. p. 106. 
Gregarious or crowded, sessile, seated on a thin, downy, white 
hypothecium ; subglobose and closed at first, then saucer-shaped,. 
rather fleshy, 3-4 mm. across; dise pale brick-red, externally 
paler, glabrous ; hypothecium and excipulum formed of branched, 
irregularly swollen hyphw, which are often thickened at the 
point of bifurcation ; these hyphz become denser in the cortex, 
and give origin, below the margin, to slender, branched, aseptate 
