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there any doubt about its connection witli a termite nest ; it 

 must be regarded as a constituent of the fungus flora definitely 

 associated with termite nests, though apparently it does not 

 develop until the combs are old. 



Berkeley and Broome described Peziza radiculosa as " sending 

 down a long root or threads into the soil." Cooke, in Micro- 

 graphia, PI. 28, Fig. 107, figures it with a long, thick, yellow 

 stem, pointed at the base, and apparently considers that it 

 should be classified with such species as Peziza tricholoma. 

 Saccardo follows Cooke, and names it Sarcoscypha radiculosa. 

 Massee (Journ. Limi. Soc, XXXI., p. 480) correctly states that 

 " the ascophores when expanded he flat on the soil." Such 

 a specimen as that figured by Cooke is quite abnormal, and 

 could only be produced by the growth of the mycehum either 

 through a worm hole (in which case it would not be rigid) or 

 along a dead twig. There is nothing resembhng Cooke's 

 figure among the specimens in the Peradeniya herbarium ; 

 all are sessile, with weak basal mycehal strands. Peziza 

 favotingens was said to grow " among fragments of herbs 

 which are bound together by the mycelium ; " this describes 

 exactly its condition when growing in damp shrubberies, 

 and Cooke's figure (Micrographia, f. 38) is a good repre- 

 sentation of a cluster of such ascophores. Berkeley and 

 Broome's specimens of Peziza flavotingens were immature, 

 but Massee {loc. cit.,p. 484) state that the spores are 11-12 

 X 5 A* ; that is probably an error, since in all otlier parti- 

 culars the immature specimens agree exactly \^ath Peziza 

 radiculosa. 



The type specimens of Peziza epispartia in the Peradeniya 

 herbarium agree with Peziza radiculosa in all respects. They 

 have the same asci and spores, the latter measuring 6-7 X 

 3-5-4 ^i, and few paraphyses. Berkeley and Broome state 

 that it is about an inch across, but the largest specimen is only 

 11 mm. They also state that it is at first cup-shaped, soon 

 expanded, externally " tomentosa-pulveraceo," with spores 

 7-5 X 3*75^, and a mycelium of rather thick cylindrical 

 threads, in all of which points it agrees with P. radiculosa. 

 They say tliat it grows " apparently on Aerj'^ rotten wood," 

 but tliere is nothing attached to the lierbariuni specimens, and 



