384 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



the cells growing into projecting groups to form the scurfy 

 protuberances ; stem slender, |-1 cm. long, brownish, base 

 of ascophore often plicate; asci cylindrical, apex rounded, 

 base narrowed, 8-spored ; spores obliquely uniseriate, smooth, 

 hyaline, continuous, elliptical, ends obtuse, usually 12- 

 guttulate, 1416 X 6-7 /j. ; paraphvses slender, hyaline, 

 septate, the slightly thickened tip often bent. 



Peziza earned, Cke. & Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 48. 



On the ground. 



Type specimen examined. 



The present species was considered by Berkeley as " Peziza 

 cupularis, var." It is, however, quite distinct from G. 

 cupularis in the nature of the excipulum and the somewhat 

 smaller spores. The colour is described from dried specimens 

 only. 



*** Externally glabrous. 



Geopyxis Bloxami. Mass., Grev., vol. xxi. p. 100. 



Ascophore stipitate, hemispherical, then expanding and 

 becoming saucer-shaped, or sometimes nearly plane, thin, 

 rather flexible, margin entire, f-U cm. across; externally 

 smooth and even ; stem 4-1 cm. long, about 3 mm. thick, 

 equal, smooth, even ; every part pale tan (in the dry state) ; 

 excipulum formed of slender, hyaline, thin, intricately inter- 

 woven hyphse ; these pass near the surface into a parenchy- 

 matous cortex composed of polygonal cells, 6-8 p. diameter; 

 asci cylindrical, apex truncate, narrowed at the base into a 

 slender pedicel, 8-spored; spores obliquely 1 -seriate, hyaline, 

 smooth, continuous, elliptic-oblong, ends obtuse, 34r-38 x 

 8-9 p.; paraphyses septate, about 2 p. thick, apex not 

 thickened, sometimes branched. 



On the ground. 



Allied in the form and size of the spores, and also in the 

 structure of the excipulum, to G. coccinea, but distinguished 

 by colour, being glabrous externally, and in growing on the 

 ground. 



Geopyxis rapulum. Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 209. 

 Ascophore stipitate, saucer-shaped then almost plane, 

 margin entire at first, then drooping and somewhat split, 



