DASYSCYPHA. 367 



hairs, 40-60 X 5-6 p; excipulum parenchymatous, cortical 

 cells almost quadrate, very pale, giving origin to the ex- 

 ternal hairs, and running out at the margin into parallel, 

 obtuse hyphae ; asci narrowly clavate, tip narrowed, 8-spored ; 

 spores irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, continuous, narrowly 

 cylindrical, ends narrowed, straight or slightly curved, 

 8-10 x 1-5-2 /j.; paraphyses slender, hyaline, tip not 

 thickened. 



Peziza elaphines, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1325, ser. iv., 

 vol. vii. p. 17, t. 19, f. 18. 



Mollisia elapJiines, Gillet, Champ. Fr., Disc., p. 131 ; Phil., 

 Brit, Disc., p. 179. 



Pseudohelotium elaphines, Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 1257. 



On dead wood. 



Type specimen examined, also Cooke, Fung. Brit., n. 659, 

 and Hab., Fung. Eur., 1813 (specimens furnished by 

 Broome). 



Under a low power the outside of the ascophore looks as- 

 if dusted with saccharine granules, and is so described by 

 Berkeley, and afterwards copied by Phillips ; but when exa- 

 mined under a power of 400 diameters, the apparent granu- 

 lation is seen to consist of the obtuse tips of the short hairs 

 with which the outside is covered. During expansion of the- 

 ascophore the hairs are often arranged in vertical lines. 



Dasyscypha siparia. Mass. 



Ascophore sessile on a broad base, globose then expanded 

 and with a raised margin, 2-3 mm. across ; the hypothecium 

 consists of densely interwoven, aseptate, brownish hyphae, 

 and these pass continuously into the excipulum, which is less 

 densely interwoven, and finally the hyphae become irregu- 

 larly branched, and paler free tips forming the outside of the 

 excipulum, which is minutely pilose or furfuraceous under a 

 lens, ochraceous, hyphae about 5 //. thick, equal; asci clavate, 

 rather narrowed at the apex, base attenuated into a narrow 

 pedicel, 8-spored ; spores irregularly biseriate, subcylindrical, 

 ends obtuse, slightly curved, hyaline, continuous, often 1-gut- 

 gulate at each end, 10-14 x 2-3 /*; paraphyses filiform, 

 equal, hyaline, about 1 ^ //. thick. 



Peziza siparia, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 772, ser ii,, 

 vol. xiii., 1854. 



