DASYSCYPHA. 353 



Peziza cerina, Pers., Syn. Fung., p. 651. 

 Lachnella cerina, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 233., pi. vii., fig. 44. 

 On rotten wood. 



Eeadily known at sight by the gregarious, dull olive- 

 yellow or wax-coloured, villose ascophores. 



Specimen in Kew Herb, named by Persoon, examined. 



Dasyscypha pygmaea. Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 1816. 



Gregarious or caespitose, stipitate, turbinate and closed 

 when young, then hemispherical, finally becoming plane, 

 4-6 mm. across ; disc orange, externally paler, downy, hairs 

 short; thin-walled, 1-2-septate, obtuse, minutely rough, 

 3045 x 4 /u,, crowded ; cortical cells parenchymatous, 

 elongated in the direction from base to margin, 6-8 X 3-4 //, ; 

 stem 3-5 mm. high, cylindrical or expanding upwards, 

 sometimes branched, each branch bearing an ascophore, 

 minutely downy; asci narrowly clavate, apex narrowed, 

 8-spored ; spores 2-seriate, narrowly cylindric-fusiform, con- 

 tinuous, hyaline, 10-11 x 2-2 -5 ju,; paraphyses lanceolate, 

 apex acute, rather longer than the asci, about 4 p. at the 

 broadest part. 



Peziza pygmaea, Fr., Syst. Myc., ii. p. 79. 



Lachnella pygmaea, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 242. 



On wood among moss, also on partly buried branches 

 (furze) &c. 



A large species, but variable in size and length of stem, 

 which is sometimes proliferous or branched. The disc is 

 also sometimes proliferous, bearing smaller ascophores on 

 its surface, as shown in the figures by Berkeley and Broome 

 Linn. Trans., xxv. p. 432, t. 55, figs. 7-13. 



Specimen in Herb. Berk., Kew, accepted as typical. 



** Paraphyses cylindrical. 

 * Externally clear deep or pale yellow. 



Dasyscypha melaxantha. Mass. 



Gregarious, narrowed at the base or broadly sessile, closed 

 at first, then expanding, but the margin remaining erect, 



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