OTIDEA. 449 



Disc bright scarlet ; stem equalling the height of the cup, 

 4 mm. 



Not examined. 



Yar. atromarginata, Phil. & Plow., Gard. Chron., 

 Feb. 11, 1882, with fig. ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 57. 



Ascophore 1-2 ■ 5 cm. across, disc blood-red, wrinkled ; 

 margin black, owing to the presence of minute, septate, 

 bristle-like hairs; the tuberculate spores are frequently 

 furnished with thread-like appendages at the extremities, 

 pointing in opposite directions obliquely to the long axis of 

 the spores. 



Not examined. 



The " septate, bristle-like hairs " at the margin appear to 

 separate this variety from the neighbourhood of P. aurantia, 



Otidea fibrillosa. Mass. 



Ascophore sessile or with a very short stem-like base, 

 2-3 cm. broad, when young the margin is involute, after- 

 wards erect, often divided on one side, rather fleshy ; disc 

 orange ; excipulum composed of large cells, the external 

 ones of which give origin to thick, wavy, interwoven, 

 colon rless, septate hyphae, 5-6 /x thick, which form a dense 

 whitish tomentum outside, quite up to the margin; asci 

 cylindrical, attenuated at the base, spores 8, uniseriate, 

 arranged obliquely or straight, hyaline, smooth, elliptical, 

 ends obtuse, eguttulate, 15-17 X 9 /x; paraphyses cylindrical 

 2 /x thick, ending in a globose, orange-coloured head, 4—5 /j. 

 diameter. 



Peziza fibrillosa, Currey, Linn. Trans., vol. xxiv. p. 153 ; 

 Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 66 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 259. 



On the ground. Autumn. 



Somewhat resembling P. aurantia, but known from this 

 and allied species by the globose heads of the paraphyses, 

 apparently constantly smooth, eguttulate spores, and tomen- 

 tose exterior of ascophore. 



Otidea luteo-nitens. Mass. 



Ascophore J-l^ cm. broad, globose when very young, then 

 concave, at length more or less plane, wavy, and irregular ; 

 disc bright orange-yellow, externally rather paler, glabrous 

 for a short distance from the margin, then the large cells of 



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