292 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



ascus ; paraphyses slender, septate, hyaline, not more than 

 3 jx thick at the slightly swollen apex. 



Peziza cupressi, Batsch, Elench. Fung., p. 119. 



Laclinella cupressi, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 241, pi. viii., 

 fig. 45. 



On dry, fallen twigs and leaves of Cypress and Juniper. 



Specimen in Desm., Crypt. Fr., ed. ii., n. 19, examined. 



SPHAEROSPORA. Sacc. 



Ascophore rather fleshy, sessile, margin incurved and 

 closed at first, soon expanding and becoming almost or quite 

 plane ; disc often brightly coloured ; externally pilose, hairs 

 coloured, those fringing the margin septate, thick-walled, 

 pointed, and larger than the remainder ; cortex parenchy- 

 matous, cells large; asci large, cylindrical, apex obtuse, 

 8-spored; spores 1 -seriate, hyaline, continuous, globose, 

 smooth or having the epispore warted or reticulated; 

 paraphyses septate, clavate. 



Sphaerospora y Sacc, Mich., i. p. 594; Sacc, Syll., viii. 

 p. 188. 



Lachnea, Phil., Brit. Disc 



Peziza, of many authors. 



Allied to Lachnea in the structure of the ascophore and 

 setulose margin, but differing in the perfectly globose spores. 

 JZarlaea has globose spores, but the ascophore is glabrous. 



Growing on the ground, rarely on rotten wood. 



* 



Disc red or orange. 



Sphaerospora treehispora. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 763. 

 Scattered, sessile, subglobose and closed at first, soon 

 plane and applanate, rather fleshy, J-l cm. across ; disc 

 varying from orange-red to crimson, externally paler and 

 clothed with stout, clear brown, septate, thick-walled, 

 pointed hairs, the marginal ones 200-300 x 7-9 /*, base 

 often more or less swollen and branched, mixed at the 

 margin with short, obtuse, thin- walled, 1-2 septate hairs ; 

 cortical cells large ; asci large cylindrical, apex obtuse, 

 8-spored ; spores 1 -seriate, hyaline, globose, increasing 

 gradually up to 18-20 /u, diameter, epispore thick, smooth at 



