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The paraphyses are remarkably stout, clavate, distinctly 

 septate, and filled with orange-red granules upwards. 



Humaria maurilabra. Sacc., SylL, n. 474. 



Scattered, sessile, fleshy, concave, up to J cm. across ; 

 excipulum parenchymatous, cells large, irregularly poly- 

 gonal, external ones brown, 15-25 /x diameter, running out 

 at the margin into parallel, obtuse, septate, brown hyphae 

 that are more or less fasciculate, giving the margin a slightly 

 crenulate appearance ; numerous thick, elongated, branched 

 and septate brown hyphae spring from the lower cells of the 

 excipulum, and attach the fungus to the matrix ; disc flesh- 

 red or almost orange ; asci cylindrical, apex rounded, 8- 

 spored ; spores elliptic-oblong, ends obtuse, smooth, hyaline, 

 continuous, usually 2-guttulate, 15-20 x 7-8 /jl, uniseriate, 

 paraphyses filiform, apex clavate, orange, 4-5 fx thick, rarely 

 forked above. 



Peziza maurilabra, Cooke, Grew, vi. p. 64 ; Cke., Mycogr., 

 fig. 388 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p, 94. 



On chips and on the ground. 



Type specimen examined. 



This somewhat resembles P. melaloma (A. & S.), but the 

 external cells and margin are distinctly different. (Cooke.) 



Humaria glumarum. Sacc, SylL, viii. n. 504. 



Ascophores gregarious or crowded, sessile, but attached 

 by a central point ; when young globose and closed, ex- 

 ternally covered with delicate white down ; glabrous and 

 expanded, slightly concave or nearly plane when mature, 

 often wavy, disc orange-yellow, margin rather torn or 

 irregular, whitish, 5-8 mm. broad ; cortical cells rather 

 large, polygonal, excipulum parenchymatous ; asci cylindrical, 

 apex rounded, 8-spored ; spores obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, 

 continuous, elliptic-oblong, ends obtuse, smooth, straight, 

 16-18 x 9-10 /jl; paraphyses septate, becoming gradually 

 clavate upwards. 



Peziza glumarum, Desm., Ann. Sci. Nat., vol. xv. p. 129 

 (1841) ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p, 97. 



On chaff. Spring. 



Specimen in Desin., Cr. France, ser. i., n. 1054, examined. 



The present species should be included in the genus Mollisia. 



