DASYSCYPHA. 347 



pointed apex ; asci narrowly clavate, 8-spored ; spores 

 irregularly biseriate, narrowly fusiform, continuous, hyaline, 

 smooth, straight or very slightly curved, 7-12 x 1'5/x,; 

 paraphyses lanceolate, apex acute, half as long again as the 

 ascus, hyaline. 



Peziza albo-testacea, Desmaz., Ann. Sci. Nat., xix. (1843 ), 

 p. 368. 



LacJmella albo-testacea, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 273. 



Trichopeziza albo-testacea, Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 1730. 



On sheaths and leaves of grasses. 



Allied to D. horridula, but distinguished by the con- 

 tinuous spores and tapering hairs. 



Specimen in Desmaziere's Crypt. Fr., ser. i., n. 1415, 

 examined. 



Dasyscypha controversa. Eehm, 26 Ber. Naturh. 

 Ver. Augsburg, p. 31 ; Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 1861. 



Gregarious or scattered, shortly stipitate, thin, f-lf mm. 

 across; disc pallid, externally pale tawny, villose, marginal 

 hairs thin-walled, cylindrical, obtuse, usually aseptate, pale 

 brown below, tips hyaline, minutely rough, crowded, 70- 

 100 x 45 /A ; cortical cells irregularly polygonal, 7-9 //. 

 diameter; asci clavate, apex narrowed, 8-spored; spores 

 2-seriate, hyaline, continuous, narrowly elliptic-fusiform, 

 straight, 5-8 X 11 '5 //, ; paraphyses lanceolate, apex acute, 

 hyaline, 4-5 ^ broad, half as long again as the asci. 



Peziza controversa, Cooke, Grev., vol. iv. p. 41, pi. 51, 

 fig. 264. 



Lachnum controversum, Eehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc., p. 904. 



On dead culms of various grasses. 



Allied to D. palearum, but differs in the smaller spores and 

 larger cortical cells. 



Specimen in Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 70, examined ; also 

 Kehm, Ascom., n. 114. 



This species is represented in Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 70, by 

 beautiful specimens ; its omission from his " British Dis- 

 comycetes " is probably therefore due to an oversight. 



Dasyscypha palearum. Mass. 



Scattered, stipitate, subglobose and closed, then expand- 

 ing, thin, |-| mm. across; disc remaining more or less 



