396 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



base ; spores 8, uniseriate, globose or sometimes with a 

 tendency to become elongated, hyaline, uniguttulate, for a 

 long time quite smooth, eventually minutely but distinctly 

 papillose, 10-12 /x diameter; paraphyses very gradually 

 becoming clavate from near the base, rather stout, septate, 

 often irregularly nodulose or irregularly branched, 3—4 \x 

 thick at the apex. 



Peziza Wriyhtii, Berk. & Curtis, Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1064; 

 ser. 3, vol. xv. p. 15, pi. 15, fig. 16; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 86; 

 Cooke, Mvcogr., fig. 18. 



Among moss on trunks. Type examined. 



Readily distinguished when quite mature by the spores 

 being sparsely ornamented with minute, blunt papillae ; 

 during the immature stage, when the spores are smooth, the 

 present species can be distinguished from allies by the stout, 

 irregularly nodulose or branched paraphyses and the cells of 

 the excipulum being elongated in a direction from base to 

 margin. The spores are not echinulate as described and 

 figured by Berkeley and Phillips, the minute warts being 

 very short and blunt. 



Barlaea cinnabarina. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 418. 



Ascophore 2-4 mm. across, sessile, fleshy, concave then 

 expanded, margin obtuse, entire, everywhere vermilion with 

 a tinge of carmine, not changing colour; excipulum con- 

 sisting of rather small-celled parenchymatous tissue, glabrous, 

 basal cells of the excipulum giving origin to stout, septate, 

 colourless hyphae which fix the plant to the soil ; spore 

 bearing portion of ascus cylindrical, tapering below to a 

 narrow, usually oblique base ; spores 8, uniseriate, globose ; 

 hyaline, 1-guttulate, 16-18 fx diameter, for a long time 

 perfectly smooth, then ornamented with very thin and 

 slightly raised lines that anastomose to form an irregular 

 polygonal network, diameter of mesh about 2J— 3 fx ; para- 

 physes numerous, lj fx thick, cylindrical, not at all thickened 

 upwards, curved at the apex. 



Peziza laetirubra, Cooke, Grev., iii. f. 56 ; Cooke, Mycogr., 

 f. 20 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 85. 



Crouania cinnabarina, Fuckel, Symb. Myc, Append, ii, 

 p. 64. 



On sandy ground, among moss, &c. 



