GEOPYXIS. 381 



presence of hyaline, thin-walled hairs, 2-3-septate, and often 

 slightly constricted at the septa, 40-60 X 6-8 /x ; disc pale 

 orange colour; stem about 1 cm. long, rather slender, 

 tapering to the point, rooting, whitish; asci cylindrical, 

 base attenuated, 8-spored ; spores obliquely uniseriate, 

 elliptical, smooth, continuous, hyaline, 15-18 X 8-10 //, ; 

 paraphyses filiform, straight, septate, apex incrassated. 



Peziza cocotina, Cooke, Grev., v. p. 61 ; Mycogr., fig. 356. 



Lachnea cocotina, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 206. 



Sarcoscypha cocotina, Sacc, SSyll., viii. n. 636. 



On cocoa-nut fibre, sawdust, &c. 



Type specimen examined. 



Var. linteicola. Caespitose and often irregular from 

 lateral pressure, very fragile, sessile or the base narrowed 

 into a short stem, J— § in. across, disc tawny, remainder as in 

 type. 



Peziza linteicola, Phil. & Plow., Brit. Disc, p. 64. 



Sarcoscypha linteicola, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 280. 



On damp, rotting linen cloth. 



Authentic specimen examined. 



Cups J to f of an inch broad ; sometimes divided to the 

 base on one side, the edges of the division involute, at others 

 entire, cupulate, arising from white creeping mycelium; 

 sporidia vary much in size, and are shortly elliptical, 

 approaching globose. The apices of the paraphyses are 

 clavate or pear-shaped, with one or two large elliptic? 

 transparent nuclei devoid of granules. The cells forming 

 the exterior of the cup are rather small (from 10-20 /x in 

 diameter). (Phillips.) 



Geopyxis parvispora. Mass. 

 Ascophore stipitate, clavate at first, then expanded, up to 

 3 cm. in diameter and as much in height, often distorted and 

 confluent, more or less turbinate ; disc plane, rarely slightly 

 concave, whitish, becoming dusky, scarcely marginate ; 

 fleshy, soft, externally white, clad, on the stem more especially 

 with short, hyaline down which becomes scanty upwards, 

 leaving the margin almost naked ; stem thick, variable, 

 gradually expanding into the disc ; asci cylindrical, spores 

 8, obliquely uniseriate, hyaline, smooth, narrowly elliptical, 

 ends rounded, biguttulate, 16-20 X 4-5 /x; paraphyses very 



