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they might equally well liave grown on the ground. The size 

 of the spores, and the mycelium, point strongly to its identity 

 witli P. radictilosa. Berkeley and Broome do not mention 

 its colour, but state that at first sight it resembles P. sar- 

 mentorum. Now, P. sar mentor um varies from crimson to pale 

 rose, and therefore is quite different from P. radiculosa when 

 fresh ; but the former becomes yellowish in drying, and the 

 latter becomes orange-red, so that it is quite possible that 

 the di'ied specimens might look ahke. It is quite impossible 

 to judge colour from the dried specimens. Cooke (in Micro- 

 graphia) figures Peziza sarmentorum dull yellow, and thus 

 affords confirmation of the above explanation of Berkeley and 

 Broome's reference. In Massee's re-description of P. epis- 

 partia the disc is said to be " brownish with a tinge of flesh 

 colour, or sometimes tinged hlac ; " this is even still further 

 removed from P. sarmentorum. Massee also re-describes 

 P. sarmentorum twice and states that it is entirely pale tan 

 colour when drj'^ (loc. cit., p. 480), and entirely ochraceous 

 when dry {he. cit., p. 499). It is evident that all these colour 

 descriptions are inaccurate, and therefore cannot stand in 

 the way of the conclusion that P. epispartia is identical with 

 Peziza radiculosa. 



The ascophores are scattered or clustered, united to the 

 soil by yellow mycefium ; they are at first globose and split 

 off a hemispherical cap wliich often remains, shrivelled up, 

 attached to one side. The disc when fully expanded is plane 

 or undulating, up to 1-5 cm. diameter, glabrous, pale yellow 

 or bright orange-yellow when fresh, becoming orange-red 

 when dry. It is rather fleshy, and yeUow internally. The 

 exterior is paler than the disc and somewhat scurfy. The 

 asci are narrow-cyhndric , 85-120 X 6-7 yu, with a shghtly 

 curved pedicel, and the spores are obhquely uniseriate. The 

 spores are oval, hyaline, continuous, 6-7 X 3 •5-4 a*- 

 The paraphyses are few in number, as long as the asci, 

 fihform, sliglitty inflated at the tip, septate, and som mes 

 branched. 



Peziza citrina. Penz. and Sacc. (Icones Fungorura Javani- 

 corum) appears, from the description and figure, to be tlie 

 same species. 



