380 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



springs from the cup, tapering to the point, buried in the 

 ground, covered with white down ; asci cylindrical, 8-spored ; 

 spores obliquely 1-seriate, elliptic-oblong, ends rounded, 

 1-2-guttulate, persistently smooth, hyaline, 14 X 7-8 /u.; 

 paraphyses septate, clavate. 



Peziza radiculata, Sowerby, Engl. Fung., t. 114 (not Cooke, 

 Mycogr., fig. 99). 



On the ground, among manure, &c. 



Sowerby's type specimen, figured in " English Fungi," 

 pi. 114, examined. These specimens are now in the Kew 

 Herbarium. 



Found in Wanstead Garden, Essex, Oct. 13th, 1794, and 

 in the autumn of 1795, rooted up to the cup in litter and 

 earth. The inside is a thin lining of nearly an uniform 

 vellow. The outer side and the radicle are white, and a 

 little woolly ; the bottom of the cup being somewhat 

 corrugated with irregular reticulations or veins. (Sowerby). 



Geopyxis insolita. Mass. 



Scattered, stipitate, clavate and closed at first, expanding 

 until saucer-shaped, fleshy, fragile, 1 52 cm. across, disc 

 pale ochraceous-white, externally whitish, downy when 

 young, then almost glabrous, the margin erect, acute, and 

 often splitting ; cortex formed of hexagonal cells up to 25 p. 

 diameter; stem subcylindrical, even, smooth, whitish, 1 cm. 

 long and up to r> cm. thick, springing from a white, 

 spreading mycelium ; asci cylindrical, apex somewhat trun- 

 cate, 8-spored ; spores hyaline, smooth, continuous, elliptical, 

 ends obtuse, 1517 X 8 /A, obliquely 1-seriate; paraphyses 

 slender, septate, very slightly clavate. 



Peziza insolita, Cooke, Mycogr., fig. 375 ; Phil., Brit. Disc., 

 p. 45. 



On decaying leaves amongst mould in a fig-house. 



Cooke says the spores measure 22-25 X 10-12 /A, but I find 

 them smaller in the specimen examined. 



Type specimen examined. 



Geopyxis cocotina. Mass. 



Ascophore fleshy, stipitate, hemispherical, then expanded 

 and almost plane ; margin acute, often split at maturity, 

 1*5 2*5 cm. across; excipulum parenchymatous, cells large, 

 irregularly polygonal ; externally whitish downy, due to the 



