378 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



margin entire, 2-4 cm. across ; disc clear and deep carmine, 

 externally whitish or pinkish, delicately tomentose, due to 

 the presence of wavy, usually aseptate, hyaline, cylindrical 

 hyphae, 5-6 /x thick ; stem 1-2 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick, 

 whitish and tomentose ; excipulum formed of loosely inter- 

 woven hyphae which become more closely compacted and 

 arranged parallel at the periphery, many of the ends running 

 out and forming the external tomentum ; asci cylindrical, 

 8-spored ; spores 1-seriate, elliptic-oblong, ends obtuse, hya- 

 line, wall rather thick and forming a hyaline border, straight, 

 25-30 x 8-9 fji ; paraphyses very slender, hardly thickened 

 at the tips. 



Elvela coccinea, Scop., Cam., p. 479. 



Peziza coccinea, Jacq., Austr., t. 169 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, 

 p. 203 ; Cooke, Mycogr., fig. 95. 



Sarcoscyplia coccinea, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 618. 



On rotten branches lying on the ground. Spring. 



Eeadily distinguished among the large, stipitate Pezizae 

 by the deep rose-red or carmine disc and the whitish, tomen- 

 tose exterior. The stem varies considerably in length ; when 

 the fungus springs from the underside of a branch, the stem 

 is often elongated and curved. The base of the stem is 

 attached to the branch by a mass of whitish, tomentose 

 mycelium, and for this reason the species was placed in the 

 genus Plectania by Fuckel. This species is abundant in 

 early spring in some of the woods near Scarboro', and. is 

 regularly collected and sold along with moss for decorative 

 purposes. 



Tar. albida. Mass. 



Disc cream-colour, otherwise as in the typical form. 



On fallen branches. Spring. 



Geopyxis Cookei. Mass. 

 Crowded, rarely scattered, stipitate, fleshy, rather brittle, 

 at first closed and globose, soon expanding and becoming 

 shallowly saucer-shaped, often irregular in form from mutual 

 pressure, disc yellowish ochraceous, externally paler, downy, 

 owing to the presence of hyaline, septate, thin-walled hairs 

 60-80 X 8 fx: 2-3 cm. across; stem 1-2 J cm. long, stout, 

 tapering to the point, pallid, downy, rooting ; excipulum 

 formed of densely interlaced septate, colourless hyphae, 



