296 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Unknown to me, the above being copied from Phillips, 

 Brit. Disc, p. 209. It will be observed that the present 

 fungus was accepted by Phillips as the Peziza brunnea, 

 Alb. & Schw., but examination of authentic specimens of the 

 latter prove that the plant accepted by Phillips differs in the 

 larger, asperate spores. 



Sphaerospora confusa. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 772. 



Gregarious or scattered, sessile, 3-5 mm. across, closed 

 at first, then gradually expanding until plane; disc dark 

 purplish brown when young, then light brown when fully 

 expanded, externally brown, the margin and for some 

 distance down, studded with crowded fasciculate, bright 

 brown, septate, thick-walled, pointed hairs, 80-250 x 7-10 /x ; 

 cortex parenchymatous, cells irregularly polygonal, 12-20 /x 

 diameter ; asci cylindrical, apex rounded, narrowed into a 

 long pedicel, 8-spored; spores 1 -seriate in the upper part of 

 the ascus, hyaline, continuous, smooth, globose, 11-13 fx dia- 

 meter (sometimes there are only 6 spores in an ascus) ; 

 paraphyses slender, becoming slightly clavate upwards, 

 septate, containing reddish-brown granules at the tip. 



Peziza confusa, Cooke, Bull., Buffalo Acad. Sci., 1875, p. 291 ; 

 Mycogr., fig. 124. 



Lachnea confusa, Phil., Grev. xviii. p. 83. 



Peziza brunnea, Nyl., Obs., p. 21. 



On burnt soil, sand, &c. 



Cups 2—6 mm. broad, partly immersed in the soil, having 

 numerous brown, septate, entangled hairs at the base, the 

 upper exposed surface and the margin clothed with short, stout, 

 brown, fasciculate hairs, from 30-70 fx long, and 3-7 thick, 

 tapering towards the summit. The cells of the pseudo- 

 parenchyma are about 10-15 /x in diameter, but vary above 

 this size in some individuals, It is very near Peziza schizo- 

 spora, the chief difference being the hairy surface of the cup. 

 (Phillips.) 



*** Disc black. 



Sphaerospora nigrella. Mass. 

 Gregarious or caespitose, sessile, globose and closed at 

 first, then becoming hemispherical, tough, everywhere 



