GEOPYXIS. 383 



8 /A ; paraphyses slender, slightly thickened upwards, septate, 

 hyaline. 



Peziza petaloidea, Cke. & Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 46. 



On the ground. 



Type specimen examined. 



This has somewhat the aspect of Peziza firtna in an old 

 stage of growth. The cup is lobed, undulate, decurved at 

 the margin; the disc is umbilicate, radiately wrinkled, 8 

 lines broad across the widest part ; the under side of the cup 

 is smoky -brown, minutely warted, wrinkled, longitudinally 

 near its junction with the stem, which tapers towards the 

 base, and is 5 lines high and about 1 line thick near the 

 middle. (Phillips.) 



The colours given are those seen in the dry specimen, and 

 may be slightly different fresh. 



Geopyxis carbonaria. Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 242. 



Ascophore stipitate, campanulate, then more expanded, 

 but remaining concave, margin erect, minutely and irregu- 

 larly crenulate, thin, disc ochraceous-red, deeper and brighter 

 when young, externally whitish and minutely scurfy ; 

 excipulum parenchymatous, cells 10-16 /A diameter ; i-1^ cm. 

 broad ; stem slender, length very variable, in some instances 

 1 cm. long, in others almost obsolete, whitish ; asci cylindri- 

 cal, base narrowed, apex rounded, 8 spored ; spores uniseriate, 

 smooth, hyaline, continuous, narrowly elliptical, ends rather 

 narrowed, 18 19 X 7/t; paraphyses slender, slightly clavate, 

 septate, hyaline. 



Peziza carbonaria, Alb. & Sz., Consp. Fung. Lus., p. 314, 

 t. iv., f. 2 ; Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 49 ; Cooke, Mycogr., fig. 284. 



On scorched ground, charcoal beds, &c. 



Allied to G. cupularis, but distinguished by the narrower 

 and more pointed spores, and the nearly glabrous outside of 

 the ascophore. 



Specimen in Rehni, Ascotn., n. 702, examined. 



Geopyxis carnea. Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 211. 

 Ascophore stipitate, saucer-shaped at maturity ; margin 

 usually slightly incurved ; entire, thin, rather firm and 

 elastic ; disc dingy yellowish-red, externally darker and 

 scurfy, 1-2^ cm. across ; excipulum formed of closely inter- 

 woven septate hyphae, passing into a parenchymatous cortex, 



