BARLAEA. 397 



Cooke's type specimen examined, also Fuckel's Fung. 

 Eheii., n. 2481. 



The present species is closely allied to B. Crouani, but is 

 quite distinct, and readily distinguished by the perfectly 

 cylindrical, slender paraphyses, curved at the apex; the 

 very delicate reticulation on the surface of the mature 

 spore, and the coloured, entire, thick margin of the asco- 

 phore. Cooke's specimens are identical with those in 

 Fuckel's exs., n. 2481, and the latter is undoubtedly the 

 species described by Fuckel, whose name has priority J 



Barlaea astroidea. Sacc., Syll., n. 415. 



Ascophore about 1 mm. across, sessile, rather fleshy, 

 ' oncave then almost plane, the whitish ragge 1 margin erect 

 or spreading, disc and externally deep orange-yellow; 

 glabrous with the exception of scattered, colourless, stout 

 septate hyphae originating from the large external cells of 

 the excipulum, and attaching the fungus to the soil; spore 

 beaiing portion of ascus cylindrical, tapering below to a 

 narrow, usually oblique base ; spores 8, uniseriate, globose, 

 14-15 p, diameter, hyaline, 1-guttulate, perfectly smooth for 

 a long time, then covered with exceedingly delicate ridges, 

 anastomosing to form an irregular polygonal network, the 

 meshes averaging 1 5-2 p. diam. ; paraphyses numerous, 

 becoming gradually clavate from near the base, apex about 

 4 p. thick, containing coloured granules, septate. 



Peziza astroidea, Hazslinszky, in Cooke's Mycogr., p. 29, , 

 fig. 49. 



Peziza leucoloma, Karst., Myc. Fenn., i. p. 63. 



On the ground among tufts of moss. 



I have examined the specimen sent to Dr. Cooke by 

 Professor Hazslinszky of Eperies, and find the spores in 

 several asci are ornamented as described above, in other asci 

 the spores are absolutely smooth. The paraphyses are. 

 sometimes more or less curved. 



Very closely allied if not identical with B. Crouani ; the 

 only constant point of difference being in the more delicate , 

 nature of the ridges on the surface of the wall of the mature 

 spore in the present species. Examination of a series of 

 living specimens will be necessary to demonstrate the, 

 permanency or otherwise of this slender point of distinction. 



