SEPULTARIA. 391 



Peziza arenicola, Lev., Ann. Sci. Nat. (1848), vol. ix., 

 p. 140; Cke., Mycogr., p. 66, fig. 118. 



Lachnea arenicola, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 210; Sacc., Syll., 

 n. 694. 



Peziza Bloxami, Cooke, Mycogr., fig. 121. 



Lachnea arenicola, var. Bloxami, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 211. 



In sandy ground. 



Subterranean at first, then as the fungus expands, the 

 sand is pushed away and the disc exposed. The outside 

 woolly coat of the fungus is completely covered with 

 particles of sand. 



Specimen from Leveille in Herb. Berk, examined. 



Cooke's specimens of P. Bloxami, which I have examined, 

 agree exactly in size, structure, and habit with the present 

 species. 



Sepultaria Sumneriana. Mass. 



Ascophore subterranean, globose, and closed at first, then 

 splitting at the apex into irregular portions, becoming 

 rather broadly expanded, and partly raised above-ground, 

 rather fleshy, 2 '5-5 cm. across; disc pale ochraceous with a 

 pinkish tinge, externally brown and densely villose, hairs 

 elongated, wavy, cylindrical, septate, coloured, 7-10 p. thick; 

 asci cylindrical, 8-spored; spores smooth, hyaline, con- 

 tinuous, elliptical, ends acute, often 2-guttulate, 28-30 X 

 11-13 /x; paraphyses slender, septate, the brown tips 

 clavate. 



Peziza, lanuginosa, var. Sumneri, Berk., Linn. Trans., xxv., 

 pi. 55, fig. 1 ; Cke., Mycogr., fig. 111. 



Lachnea Sumneriana, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 213; Sacc., Syll., 

 viii. n. 618. 



On the ground, under conifers. Spring. 



Distinguished from S. sepulta by the large, acute-pointed 

 spores, and by the larger ascophore. 



Type specimen examined. 



Sepultaria semiimmersa. Mass. 



Ascophore 3 mm. up to 1 cm. across, sessile, semi- 

 immersed in the ground, hemispherical then expanded, some- 

 times becoming almost plane, margin unequal and irregularly 

 torn; disc pale ochraceous with a tinge of dingy flesh- 

 colour or sometimes pale brick-red; externally paler and 



