416 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Humaria subhirsuta. Mass. 



Gregarious or crowded, sessile, closed at first, then 

 gradually expanding until almost plane, margin entire, 

 thickish, rather fleshy; disc clear but rather pale orange- 

 yellow, externally paler, 3-4 mm. across; cortex paren- 

 chymatous, cells irregularly polygonal, 8-14 \x diameter, the 

 external ones giving origin to septate, thin-walled, hyaline 

 hyphae that fix the plant to the ground, a few scattered, 

 short hyphae are present on the above-ground part of the 

 exterior of the ascophore ; asci cylindrical, apex rounded, 

 8-spored ; spores obliquely 1-seriate, continuous, hyaline, 

 broadly elliptical, ends obtuse, 17-18 X 10 /a; paraphyses 

 slender, septate, cylindrical or very slightly thickened at 

 the apex, orange, remarkable for springing in clusters of 

 4-10 from a common basal cell. 



Peziza subhirsuta, Schmn., Flora Danica. t. 1787, fig. 1 ; 

 Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 108; Cooke, Mycogr., fig. 66 (colour too 

 dingy). 



Pyronema subhirsutum, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 403. 



On the ground in damp places. 



Characterised by the paraphyses springing in clusters 

 from a common cell near the base. 



Specimens in Eabenh.-Winter, Fung. Eur., n. 2748, 

 examined. 



Humaria xanthomela. Sacc, Syll., n. 495. 



Ascophores gregarious, sessile, but narrowed to a very 

 short, stout, stem-like base, rather fleshy, 2-4 mm. across, 

 soon plane or slightly convex, disc yellow, externally 

 blackish brown and minutely rough, owing to the dark- 

 coloured, projecting ends of hyphae which are more or less 

 clustered in groups ; excipulum and hypothecium formed of 

 slender, hyaline, interwoven hyphae; asci narrowly cylin- 

 drical, 8-spored; spores obliquely 1-seriate, continuous, 

 hyaline, smooth, elliptical, ends obtuse, 10-12 x 5-6 //,; 

 paraphyses cylindrical, very slender, sometimes branched. 



Peziza xanthomela, Pers.. Syn. Fung., p. 665; Cooke, 

 Mycogr., fig. 41 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 97. 



On the ground on decayed pine leaves, also on rotten pine 

 wood. 



Keadily distinguished by the peculiar structure of the 



