388 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



ANTHOPEZIZA. Wettstein. 



Ascophores stipitate, solitary or several springing from a 

 common base, piriform and closed at first, then funnel-shaped, 

 the crenate margin spreading, externally and the stem 

 pubescent ; hypothecium, excipulum, and cortex formed of 

 slender, densely interwoven hyphae; asci cylindrical, apex 

 truncate, 8-spored ; spores obliquely 1 -seriate, smooth, 

 hyaline, fusiform, 3-5-septate at maturity ; paraphyses 

 slender, septate. 



Anthopeziza, Wetts., Zool.-Bot. Gesell. Wien, 1885, p. 382. 



Allied to Geopyxis, but distinguished by the large, fusi- 

 form spores being 3 5-septate at maturity. 



Anthopeziza mirabilis. Mass. 



Scattered, ascophores growing singly, or several springing 

 from the same base, stipitate, at first piriform and closed, 

 then funnel-shaped with the crenate margin more or less 

 spreading, rather fleshy and brittle, 1 cm. across; disc 

 bright crimson, externally white, toinentose, stem 24 cm. 

 long, slender, slightly thickened upwards, white, tomentose, 

 more or less rooting; hypothecium and excipulum formed of 

 septate, interwoven hyphae, which run out as thin- walled, 

 cylindrical hairs to form the external down ; asci cylindrical, 

 apex somewhat truncate, 8-spored ; spores obliquely 1- 

 iseriate, hyaline, smooth, elliptical, ends pointed, for a long 

 time continuous and 3-5-guttulate, then becoming 3-5- 

 septate, 45-50 X 1516 /A; paraphysts slender, septate, apex 

 not thickened but septate with crimson granules, sometimes 

 branched. 



Peziza mirabilis, Borszczow, Fungi Ingrici, p. 61, tabs. 4-5 

 (1857); Cooke, Mycogr., fig. 93 (spore incorrect in shape 

 and size); Phil., in Grev., vol. xvii. p. 83. 



Sclerotinia baccata, Fckl., Symb. Myc., p. 331, tak iv. 

 fig. 38 (one spore). 



Anthropeziza Winteri, Wettst., Zool.-Bot. Gesell. Wien, 

 1885, p. 383 with fig. 



Among pine leaves, also among grass. 



Specimens collected by Professor W. H. Trail, F.R.S., 

 growing in clusters of 2-6 among grass, on the banks of 



