HUMARIA. 405 



gonal, running out at the margin into parallel, crowded, 

 clavate, obtuse, 3-5-septate, reddish-brown hyphae slightly 

 constricted at the septa, 30-45 X 7-9 /x ; asci cylindrical, 

 apex slightly truncate, 8-spored; spores obliquely 1-seriate, 

 hyaline, continuous, elliptical, epispore minutely reticulated, 

 13-16 X 7.8 jx; paraphyses septate, tips slightly clavate 

 and containing red granules. 



Peziza Chateri, W. G. Smith, Gard. Chron., 1872, p. 0, 

 with fig. ; Cooke, Mycogr., fig. 62 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 89. 



On damp paths, road-scrapings, &c. 



A very beautiful and distinct species. I have seen it 

 covering the sides of a damp path and extending for more 

 than a hundred yards, showing as a crimson streak at a 

 considerable distance away. 



Humaria humosa. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 458. 



Gregarious, sessile, fleshy, closed at first, then expanding 

 until saucer-shaped or almost plane, glabrous, margin 

 rounded, thick ; disc blood-red, 3-5 mm. across ; cortex pa- 

 renchymatous ; asci cylindrical, apex truncate, 8-spored ; 

 spores obliquely 1-seriate, smooth, hyaline, continuous, 

 broadly elliptical, ends obtuse, often 2-guttulate, 19-22 x 

 10 /x ; paraphyses slender, slightly clavate, sometimes 

 branched. 



Peziza humosa, Fries, Obs. Myc, p. 309; Cke., Mycogr., 

 fig. 25 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 92. 



On the naked ground in damp places. 



Specimen in Cooke, Fung. Brit., n. 475, examined. 



Humaria haemastigma. Mass. 



Gregarious, sessile, closed at first, then gradually expand- 

 ing until plane or slightly convex, glabrous, rather fleshy, 

 about ^ mm. across, vermilion to carmine, margin entire ; 

 asci cylindrical, apex obtuse, 8-spored ; spores hyaline, con- 

 tinuous, broadly elliptical, ends obtuse, smooth, 18-20 X 

 10-12 fx, 1-seriate; paraphyses rather stout, septate, apex 

 very slightly clavate, 4 jx thick ; cortex parenchymatous, 

 cells irregularly polygonal, 6-8 fx diameter. 



Octospora haemastigma, Hedwig, Muse Frond., t. 5, fig. b. 



Peziza haemastigma, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 107 ; Cooke, 

 Mycogr., fig. 70. 



Pyronema haemastigma, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 405. 



