No. 9.] [March, 1873. 



dmriltea, 



A MONTHLY RECORD OF CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY, 

 AND ITS LITERATURE. 



BRITISH FUNGI. 



By M. C. Cooke. 

 (Continued from p. 116J 



ASCOMYCETES. 



Peziza (Humaria) hinnulea. B. $ Br. " Brown Humaria." 



Cup sessile, flexuose, marginate, bay-brown, between fleshy and 

 waxy ; sporidia globose, even with a large globose nucleus. — B. fy 

 Br. Ann. JST. H., No. 1320.* 



On soil amongst grass. Powerscourt. Sept. 



Sporidia ('0006 in.) -015 m.m. diameter. 



Peziza (Humaria) schizospora. Phillips. " Phillips' Humaria." 



Gregarious, sessile, urceolate then plane, reel, becoming brown, 

 externally pruinose ; sporidia spherical, smooth, with a large nucleus, 

 paraphyses filled with orange granules, clavate at the tips. — Phillips 

 in lift. 



On burnt or sandy ground. Shrewsbury. (W. Phillips.) 



Sporidia (-0004 in.) -01 m.m. diameter, containing a single large 

 nucleus, which escapes by rupture of the epispore. 



Allied to P. Wrightii.—B. & Br. 



Peziza (Humaria) subhirsuta cur. macrocystis. 



Gregarious or scattered, cup shaped then flattened; margin 

 entire, slightly elevated, externally brownish, smooth, or minutely 

 granular ; disc orange-red ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia elliptical, 

 narrow ; paraphyses clavate, filled with orange granules. 



On burnt soil. Shrewsbury. (W. Phillips.) 



The external cells of the cup are very large : cups 1-2 lines 

 broad, sporidia -0009 X -0005 in. 



Peziza (Dasyscypha) citricolor. B. $ Br. " Lemon-coloured 



Peziza." 

 Cups very shortly stipitate or sessile, between fleshy and waxy, 

 turbinate, finely tomentose, lemon-coloured ; sporidia fusiform, with 



