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BEITISH FUNGI. 



By M. C. Cooke. (^Continued from Vol. 4ivj-p7-id^.) 



The following are some of the adilitions recently made to the 

 British Flora. Messrs. Berkeley and Broome have described 

 several additional species in a recent number of the " Annals and 

 Magazine of Natnral History." 



Feziza (Macropodes) Ciborium. IV. 



Cinnamon, cnps campanulate, subprninose, stem even, fibrillose, 

 rooting at the base. Sporidia elliptical. — Fries. Si/s. Myc. ii., 59. 

 B. ^ Br., Ann. N.H., No. 1479. 



On the ground. 



This is the largest fonn indicated by Fries, and not tliat figured 

 in " Flora Danica," t. 1078, fig. 1. " There are a few brown my- 

 celoid fibres at the base, while the earth above is filled with scattered 

 patches of spawn." Sporidia -001 X •0004--0005 in. B. ^ Br. 

 •025 X -012 m.m. 



Feziza (Cupulares) tectozia. Coohe. 



Sessile, or very shortly stipitate, cups at first globose, then ex- 

 panded, whitish, furfuraceous, at length smooth, disc plane, sub- 

 umbilicate, pale ochraceous, margin uneven, splitting ; paraphyses 

 linear, hyaline, asci cylindrical. Sporidia uniseriate, elliptical. 



On damp plaster wall. Shrewsbury (W. Phillips). 



At first appearing as a small white furfuraceous ball, seated on 

 a white mycelium ^ in. across ; when old becoming very irregular 

 in form, If in. across ; margin rather thick and jagged. The 

 tips of the asci are clear blue with iodine. Sporidia "018 X -009 

 m.m. to '02 X -01 m.m. 



This species was at first confounded with P. viridaria, B. & Br., 

 from which it differs in colour, larger size, uncoloured paraphyses, 

 and different sporidia. The sporidia in P. viridaria are "015 X 

 •008 m.m. 



Feziza (Cupulares) sepiatxa. Coohe. 



Sessile, or very shortly stipitate. Cups at first hemisplierical, 

 soon expanded and nearly plane, umber-brown, slightly furfuraceous, 

 margin narrow, scarcely elevated ; disc plane, sometimes umbili- 

 cate, darker, nearly pitch-brow^n ; asci cylindrical. Sporidia ellip- 

 tic, paraphyses clavate at the tips. (Fig. 135.) 



On charcoal, Epping. On the ground, Shrewsbury (W. Phillips). 



Not more than ^ an inch broad, often less, scarcely distinguished 

 at the first from the charcoal on which it grows, rather fleshy and 

 brittle, gregarious. Sporidia •02-'022 X -Oil m.m., perhaps ap- 

 proaching a small form of P. repanda, but distinct, the sporidia are 

 larger. The large cells of the cup in P. repanda have been noticed 

 by some authors from their extraordinary size, about -09 X -06 m.m., 

 whereas the largest in P. sepiatra are about -03 m.m. diam. 



