Rev, M. J. Berkeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on British Fungi. 125 
Transactions. Sporidia uniseriate, linear-oblong, ‘0005--0006 
inch long. 
ae IV. fig. 22. a. asci, magnified; b. sporidia, more highly mag- 
nined. 
*P, (Sarcoscyphe) radiculata, Sow. t. 114. 
Fine specimens of this rare species have been found this year 
by Mr. Jerdon near Jedburgh, in a fir-wood. 
Sporidia ‘0005 inch long, rather broad, binucleate. 
Puate IV. fig. 23. Sporidia, highly magnified. 
Fig. 24. a. ascus of the same species in Rabenhorst, specimen no. 618; 
b. sporidia of ditto (‘0007 inch long), more highly magnified. 
1161. P. (Sarcoscyphe) lanuginosa, Bull. tab. 396. fig. 2. 
Var. Sumnert cupula demum radiato-fissa, margine junioris an- 
guste nudo. 
Under cedars. Fetcham Park, Mrs. Holme Sumner.  Chis- 
wick House, Mr. Edmonds, Jan—May. Under a larch, Wilson 
Saunders, Esq. 
At first entirely buried, then forcing its way through ihe soil, 
and splitting into several lobes, like a Geaster, which it much 
resembles from its thick substance. The outer coat is densely 
clothed with flexuous hairs, very different from those of Peziza 
hemispherica. The sporidia, moreover, are shortly and bluntly 
fusiform. 
A large and magnificent species, acquiring frequently a dia- 
meter of 2 inches, and combining in some measure the characters 
of P. sepulta and P. hemispherica, from both of which it differs 
materially in the subfusiform fruit. It has also a very close 
affinity to Tulasne’s genus Hydrocystis. It has been observed 
for many years at Fetcham, but has not hitherto been recorded 
as British. Bulliard’s plant is considered by Fries a variety 
of P. hemispherica, but it is really very different. In plants 
which are just open a delicate veil is often found stretched over 
the orifice. 
A figure and analysis of this fine fungus will appear in the 
forthcoming number of the Linnean Transactions. 
Puare IV. fig. 25. a. hairs from outer surface, magnified ; 3. ascus 
with paraphyses, ditto; ce. sporidia, highly magnified. 
1162. P. (Sarcoscyphe) Geaster, n. s. Brunnea, cupula sub- 
globosa, floccosa, demum radiato-fissa. 
On the ground. Wentworth, Oct.9, 1858, Mr. J. Henderson. 
About an inch across; hairs flexuous, branched, articulated, 
often giving out little curved hyaline processes with a few straight 
bristles intermixed. Hymenium brown like the rest of the 
plant. Paraphyses clavate; sporidia elliptic, with the ends very 
slightly attenuated, ‘0009 inch long. The sporidia of P. sepulta, 
a much coarser species, are of the same length. 
