300 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



then multiseptate, usually slightly "bent, 65-67 x 2-5-3 /x; 

 paraphyses very slender, hyaline, cylindrical, sometimes 

 branched. 



Arachnopeziza aurata, Fckl., Symb. Myc, p. 304 (1870). 



Belonidium auratum, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2063. 



Peziza rhabdosperma, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1621, 

 with fig. (1876). 



Tapesia rhabdosperma, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 280. 



On dead wood. 



Berkeley's type examined, also Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 170, and 

 Fuckel, Fung. Khen., n. 2480. All three are identical. 



** Spores continuous, 



Tapesia eriobasis. Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 278 ; Sacc, 

 Syll., viii. n. 1582. 



Gregarious, sessile, closed at first, then plane or with the 

 margin more or less raised, thin, |— 1 mm. across, disc whitish 

 or with a pale yellow tinge, especially when dry, outside 

 white and downy, seated on a snow-white downy subiculum 

 formed of branched, septate hyphae about 4 jx thick ; asci 

 clavate, 8-spored, apex slightly narrowed ; spores 2-seriate, 

 elliptic-oblong, hyaline, continuous, 5-6 X 1 * 5 /x ; paraphyses 

 very slender, cylindrical. 



Peziza eriobasis, Berk., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 312. 



On the inside of bark. 



Differs from other species in the ascophores being wider 

 apart than usual in the genus. Each ascophore is surrounded 

 by its own snow-white, radiating mass of hyphae, and when 

 the ascophores are near to each other the white mycelium 

 forms a spreading subiculum. 



Disc sometimes bright yellow, especially when dry. 



Type specimen examined. 



Tapesia eaesia. Fckl., Symb. Myc, p. 301 ; Phil., 

 Brit. Disc, p. 277; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 1574. (figs. 39 

 (marked 40 at bottom of pi.), and 40, p. 156). 



Sessile, gregarious or crowded, closed when young, becom- 

 ing plane or with the margin slightly raised, thin, about 

 J mm. across ; disc subgelatinous, bluish-grey or brownish- 

 grey, externally whitish and villosc, seated on a continuous, 

 effused, greyish-white subiculum formed of branched, sep- 



