408 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



running up the base of the hemispherical or cyathiform cups, 

 which are about 2 lines broad, margin generally acute. 

 (B. & Br.) 



Distinguished at once by the peculiar structure of the 

 hypothecium and excipulum. 



Type specimen examined. 



Humaria convexula. Quelet, Enchir. Fung., p. 288 ; 

 Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 547. 



Scattered, sessile, somewhat immersed, plane then rather 

 convex, slightly marginate, fleshy, soft, glabrous, reddish- 

 yellow or ochraceous with a tinge of flesh-colour, sometimes 

 dull orange, 1—2 mm. across ; hypothecium and excipulum 

 formed of strings of stout sausage-shaped cells, constricted 

 at the distant septa and often branched, cortex parenchy- 

 matous ; asci cylindrical, apex rounded, 8-spored ; spores 

 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, smooth, 1-2-guttulate, ellip- 

 tical, ends rather acute, 22-25 x 10-12 ll; paraphyses 

 slender, septate, tips clavate, 6-8 /x thick, and containing 

 reddish oil-globules. 



Peziza convexula, Pers., Obs. My a, ii. p. 85 ; Mycogr., 

 fig. 36 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 95. 



Peziza chrysojjhthalma, Gerard, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. iv. 

 n. 12. 



On naked soil, also among moss. 



Specimen in Fuckel's Fung. Ehen., n. 1875 ; a specimen 

 in Herb. Cooke, Kew, from Gerard, also examined. 



Humaria pilifera. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 464. 

 Scattered, sessile, hemispherical and closed at first then 

 expanding until almost plane, rather fleshy, 1-2*5 mm. 

 across, margin erect or very slightly incurved, minutely 

 fimbriate, pale, disc orange-red; externally similar in colour, 

 and sprinkled with very delicate, thin-walled, septate hairs 

 which become more numerous downwards ; cortex parenchy- 

 matous, cells irregularly polygonal, 10-18 /x diameter; asci 

 cylindrical, apex rounded, 8-spored; spores obliquely 1-se- 

 riate, continuous, hyaline, smooth, broadly elliptical, ends 

 blunt, 1-guttulate, 15-18 X 9 li ; paraphyses slender, septate, 

 often branched, clavate and filled with orange oil-globules 

 at the apex, which is sometimes bent. 



