120 TWO SPECIES OF PEZIZA. 



totally from the accidental default of antheridia. However, if we 

 consider the analogies of all kinds which exist between the organs 

 of the Saprolegnice and those among the Algae, of which the sexual 

 office is well known, we cannot refuse to the former the value which 

 we grant to the latter. Experimental researches on the phenomena 

 of sexual multiplication in the other Fungi, and on the organs 

 which are employed in it, are barely possible. The physiological 

 office of these latter, as sexual organs, can only be concluded from 

 the constancy of their reciprocity of action, and from their resem- 

 blance to the organs of Saprolegnice. 



TWO SPECIES OF PEZIZA * 

 By Worthington G. Smith, F.L.S. 



Peziza (Humaria) Chateri. &m. " Chater's Peziza." 

 Cups concave, at length expanded, margin incurved, sessile, bright 

 orange-red within, pale brown externally, from the colour of the 

 cells of the cup, asci cylindrical ; sporidia elliptic, binucleate, epis- 

 pore rough. Paraphyses clavate above. — W. G. Smith, in Gard. 

 Chron., No. 1 (1872). with fig. Rabh. Fung. Eur., No. 1517. 

 On the ground. 



Cups 1 to 6 lines across, composed of clavate, pale brown, septate 

 cells, the tips of which give a granulated appearance to the outer 

 surface, which is otherwise smooth. 



(PI. viil, fig. 1. 2.) 



Peziza (Mollisia) Bullii. Sm. " Bull's Peziza." 



Cups subhemispherical, at length irregular, sessile, or very shortly 

 stipitate, whitish, margin inflexed, rather pulverulent from the 

 remains of the veil, hymenium often proliferous, mycelium brown- 

 ish, asci subclavate, sporidia sub-elliptic, minute. — W. G. Smith, 

 in Gard. Chron., (1873). with fig. B. $ Br. Ann. N. H., No. 1324, t. 

 19, /• 17. 



On a wooden cistern. Dec. 



Sporidia •0002--0003 in. long. 



(PI. vin., fig. 3.) 



* For the use of the figures illustrating this communication, 

 we are indebted to the Gardener's Chronicle. 



Batarrea Phalloides. 



Mr. W. G. Smith has announced in the Gardener's Chronicle 

 that four specimens of this very rare and interesting fungus have 

 been found recently in Britain. One of these has been deposited 

 in the Museum of the Boyal Botanic Gardens, at Kew. 



