DASYSCYPHA. 367 



hairs, 40-60 X 5— C fx; excipulum parenchymatous, cortical 

 cells almost quadrate, very pale, giving origin to the ex- 

 ternal hairs, and running out at the margin into parallel, 

 obtuse hyphae ; asci narrowly clavate, tip narrowed, 8-spored ; 

 spores irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, continuous, narrowly 

 cylindrical, ends narrowed, straight or slightly curved, 

 8-10 X 1*5-2 fx; paraphyses slender, hyaline, tip not 

 thickened. 



Peziza elaphines, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1325, ser. iv., 

 vol. vii. p. 17, t. 19, f. 18. 



Mollisia elaphines, Gillet, Champ. Fr., Disc, p. 131 ; Phil., 

 Brit, Disc, p. 179. 



Pseudohelotium elaphines, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 1257. 



On dead wood. 



Type specimen examined, also Cooke, Fung. Brit., n. 659, 

 and iiab., Fung. Eur., 1813 (specimens furnished by 

 Broome). 



Under a low power the outside of the ascophore looks as 

 if dusted with saccharine granules, and is so described by 

 Berkeley, and afterwards copied by Phillips ; but when exa- 

 mined under a power of 400 diameters, the apparent granu- 

 lation is seen to consist of the obtuse tips of the short hairs 

 with which the outside is covered. During expansion of the 

 ascophore the hairs are often arranged in vertical lines. 



Dasyscypha siparia. Mass. 



Ascophore sessile on a broad base, globose then expanded 

 and with a raised margin, 2-3 mm. across ; the hypothecium 

 consists of densely interwoven, aseptate, brownish hyphae, 

 and these pass continuously into the excipulum, which is less 

 densely interwoven, and finally the hyphae become irregu- 

 larly branched, and paler free tips forming the outside of the 

 excipulum, which is minutely pilose or furfuraceous under a 

 lens, ochraceous, hyphae about 5 /x thick, equal; asci clavate, 

 rather narrowed at the apex, base attenuated into a narrow 

 pedicel, 8-spored ; spores irregularly biseriate, subcylindrical, 

 ends obtuse, slightly curved, hyaline, continuous, often 1-gut- 

 gulate at each end, 10-14 x 2-3 fx; paraphyses filiform, 

 equal, hyaline, about 1 1- /x thick. 



Peziza siparia, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 772, ser ii,, 

 vol. xiii., 1854. 



