420 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



apex clavate, sometimes constricted in a beaded manner, 

 deep green, often branched. 



Peziza jungermanniae, Nees, in Fries, Syst. Myc.,ii. p. 144; 

 Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 101 ; Cooke, Mycogr., fig. 87. 



Ascobolus jungermanniae , B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1082, 

 t. 16, f. 23. 



On the ground among hepatics. 



Keseinbling Chlorosplenium aeruginosum in colour, but dis- 

 tinguished by structural characters, and in growing on the 

 ground. The spores are sometimes slightly clavate or 

 irregularly elliptical. The apex of the ascus is irregularly 

 torn during dehiscence. Corrugated and blackish green 

 when dry. 



**** J){ 8C salmon-colour. 



Humaria salmonicolor. Sacc, Syll., n. 470. 



Gregarious ; sessile, concave then plane or slightly convex 

 and with the margin adpressed, fleshy, about 3 mm. across, 

 glabrous ; disc salmon-colour ; excipulum tinged red, paren- 

 chymatous, cells irregularly circular, 12-20 /jl diameter; 

 asci rather broadly clavate, narrowed to a slender base, 

 8-spored; spores irregularly 2-seriate above, 1-seriate below, 

 smooth, hyaline, continuous, elliptical, ends obtuse, 18-22 x 

 10-12 fx; paraphyses slender, septate, apex slightly clavate. 



Peziza salmonicolor, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1158, 

 t. iv., fig. 19; Cooke, Mycogr., fig. 48; Phillips, Brit. Disc, 

 p. 98. 



Damp ground, sides of ditches, &c. 



Type specimen examined. 



A fine species, well marked by the broadly clavate ascus 

 having the spores irregularly 2-seriate in the upper portion ; 

 the plane or slightly concave disc, and large cells of the 

 excipulum, from which stout, hyaline, septate, branched 

 hyphae are given off near the base. 



Humaria Keithii. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 472. 

 Minute, gregarious or crowded, sessile, fleshy, turbinate, 

 then expanded, dull salmon-colour, glabrous ; disc nearly 

 plane, margin obtuse ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; spores 8, 

 oblong- elliptic, smooth, 15-18 X 7/x; paraphyses scarce or 

 none. 



