376 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



spores obliquely 1 -seriate, hyaline, continuous, 2-guttulate, 

 fusiform, ends acute, straight, 28-30 X 10-12 /x ; paraphyses 

 hyaline, clavate at the tip. 



Peziza nivea, Romell, Bot. Notiser, 1889, p. 26. 



On decaying vegetable matter, pine leaves, &c, on the 

 ground. 



Allied to N. fossulae, but distinguished by the marginal 

 hairs — more especially — being straight, somewhat rigid, and 

 pointed, not thin-walled, obtuse, and wavy, as in the last 

 named species. 



The first British specimens were found by Mr. Rea in 

 Mulgrave woods, near Whitby, at the meeting of the Yorks. 

 Nat. Union Fungus Foray, Sept. 1894. 



Authentic specimen from Komell examined. 



Neottiella fossulae. Sacc, Svll., viii. n. 783. 



Sessile, partly immersed in the earth, closed at first, then 

 hemispherical, finally almost plane, margin slightly incurved, 

 entirely white, about 1 cm. across when fully expanded ; ex- 

 ternally densely clothed with hyaline, thin-walled, cylindri- 

 cal, flexuous, septate hyphae about 6-8 jx thick, towards the 

 base of the ascophore these hyphae are branched, and attach 

 the plant to the soil; excipulum and hypothecium formed of 

 interwoven hyphae ; cortex parenchymatous ; asci cylindri- 

 cal, apex obtuse, 8-spored ; spores obliquely 1 -seriate, smooth, 

 hyaline, continuous, fusiform, ends pointed, straight, usually 

 2-guttulate, 23-25 X 10-11 fx; paraphyses slender, septate, 

 hyaline, apex slightly thickened. 



Peziza fossulae, Limminghe, MS. in Herb. ; Cooke, Mycogr., 

 p. 212, fig. 359. 



On the naked ground. 



Specimens from Limminghe, in Herb. Kew, examined. 



Distinguished from N. nivea by growing partly immersed 

 in the earth, and also by all the external hairs being thin- 

 walled, cylindrical, and flexuous. 



GEOPYXIS. Persoon (emended). 



Ascophore stipitate, rather fleshy, closed at first, then cup- 

 shaped or nearly plane, externally pilose, downy, scurfy, or 



