4C& FUNGUS-FLORA. 



slightly curved, 3-5 septate at maturity, 23-25 X 5-6 p. : 

 paraphyses slender, hyaline, scarcely thickened at the tips. 



Peziza quisquilarum, B. & C., Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. x. 

 p. 366, n. 670. 



On fragments of decaying twigs, &c., on the damp 

 ground. 



Type specimen examined. 



HUMAEIA. Fries. 



Ascophore sessile, fleshy, closed at first, finally becoming 

 saucer-shaped or plane ; glabrous, at all events fur some 

 distance downwards from the margin, the lower portion in 

 some species giving origin to numerous hyphae which form 

 a spreading subiculum ; cortical cells polygonal, often run- 

 ning out into parallel, septate hyphae and forming a 

 minutely fimbriate margin ; asci cylindrical, 8-spored ; spores 

 continuous, hyaline, elliptical or fusiform, obliquely 1-seriate ; 

 paraphyses present. 



Humaria, Fries, Syst. Mys., ii. p. 42 (as a subgenus of 

 Peziza) ; Sacc., Syll., viii. p. 118 (in part). 



The species are generally small, rarely reaching 1 cm. in 

 diameter. Closely allied to Peziza, which differs more 

 especially in the ascophores being larger, and granular or 

 scurfy externally. Neottiella differs in being distinctly vil- 

 lose or downy outside. The species of Tapesia agree with 

 certain members of the present genus in having a tapesiuni, 

 but are distinguished by growing on wood. The species of 

 Mollisia also grow on plants. 



Growing on the ground. 



* Disc red, orange-red, or yellowish. 



Humaria Chateri. Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 457. 

 Densely caespitose, rarely scattered, sessile, fleshy, closed 

 .at first, then expanded ; margin erect or slightly incurved, 

 minutely fimbriate, dark brown; disc deep orane-red or 

 crimson, externally pale reddish-brown, 1 cm. across, often 

 irregular in form from mutual pressure ; hypothecium and 

 -cxcipulum parenchymatous, cortical cells irregularly poly- 



