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the Dee, near Ballater, accepted as typical. The spores 

 remain continuous and 3-5-guttulate for a considerable time, 

 finally becoming 3-5-septate, but the appearance of the 

 septa is very erratic, sometimes one at a short distance from 

 each end are first formed, sometimes a median one. Saccardo 

 Syll., viii. n. 622 has given the present species as a 

 synonym under Sarcoscypha protracta, Fries ; this is certainly 

 a mistake, as proved by examination of specimens of the 

 last-named fungus from Fries. Fuckel, in describing his 

 Sclerotinia baccata, queries the presence of a sclerotium, no 

 such structure was found by Dr. Trail in the Scottish 

 specimens, neither does the structure of the ascophore and 

 the villous exterior suggest the genus Sclerotinia. In Symb. 

 Myc., Append, ii., p. 65, Fuckel identifies his fungus with a 

 species described as Microstoma hyemale by Milde in Bot. 

 Ztg., 1852, p. 208, and in consequence alters the name to 

 Sclerotinia hyemaUa (Milde) Fuckel. If Milde's species is 

 actually identical with the fungus described above, the 

 name should be Anthopeziza hiemalis. 



SEPULTARIA. Cooke (emended). 



Ascophore large, sessile, subterranean, globose, and com- 

 pletely closed when young; during growth the apex is 

 ruptured in a more or less stellate manner, exposing the 

 disc, and the fungus protrudes above the surface of the 

 ground, rather fleshy, colour dingy ; externally densely 

 clothed with matted, thin-walled, cylindrical, septate hairs, 

 or almost glabrous ; asci cylindrical, 8-spored J spores 

 obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, smooth, elliptical ; 

 paraphyses present. 



Sepultaria, Cooke, Mycographia, p. 259 (as a section of 

 Peziza). 



Terrestrial. Distinguished from Peziza by being sub- 

 terranean at first, and completely closed, finally rupturing 

 at the apex in a stellate manner, hence the margin is broken 

 up into pointed teeth. Probably a primitive type of the 

 Pezizae. 



Sepultaria sepulta. Mass. 

 Asoophore at first subterranean, becoming more or less 



