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form the marginal hairs and those of the encipulum: they are 
succeeded at the summit by a much denser growth of very fine 
converging hairs which later stand erect and are the paraphyses 
of the now fully exposed though still very miniature hymenium 
of the apothecium: at this stage a very few asci are developed 
but none contain ascospores. 
Although on staining, nuclei were to be seen in the primordial 
hyphae and in the asci, they were far too small for any attempt 
at working out details of cytological structure to be made. 
Dasyscypha diplocarpa Curr. During the mycological foray, 
Sept. 1920 at Minehead, Dr W. T. Elliott found in the Horner 
Woods an interesting and very rare Discomycete—Dasyscypha 
diplocarpa Curr. The type specimen was found by Currey at 
Dartford and apparently there is no other record* of the fungus 
having been found since that time—fifty-seven years ago. 
Currey described it under the name of Peziza diplocarpa in 
Linn. Trans. xxIv, p. 153, 1864, giving a coloured illustration 
of the apothecium and also figures of the paraphyses and spores. 
The paraphyses are particularly striking in that each is sur- 
mounted byavery large elongated oval septate 
conidium of a pale green colour: it is these 
coloured conidia which give the beautiful olive 
green colour to the disc. Currey in his descrip- 
tion, copied by Phillips and Massee, has 
omitted to mention this andalso that the para- 
physes are very much branched. 
Phillips mentions that “‘ besides the peculiar 
bodies Mr Currey regarded as paraphyses he 
found in the original material slender filiform 
paraphyses”’: the latter are to be seen in great 
Fig. 2. numbers but they are merely paraphyses from 
Pe pny which the top-heavy conidia have fallen off; 
of 2. diplocarpa. this readily happens in mounting portions of 
the hymenium for microscopical examination, for the conidia 
are very large (20-50 x 5-6) compared with the extremely 
filiform lower portion of the branched paraphyses to which they 
are attached. 
The ascospores measure 6-7:5 x 3 and this agrees with the 
original measurement given by Currey (7): Massee gives the 
spore measurement 10-12 x 3 and also states that though the 
spores are for a long time continuous and two guttulate they 
x 400 
* It was recorded from Caughley Wood, Shropshire, at the Worcester Spring 
Foray, on the 27th May, 1912, see Trans. Brit. Myc. 1v, 14. The spores in this 
gathering measured 7-9 X 3-3°5 u, and were pale ochraceous at maturity. It 
was also redescribed by Massee and Crossland from specimens gathered in the 
Mulgrave Wood, Yorkshire, in September, 1900, see The Naturalist (1901) 
181. C.R. 
