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ascophore, and the rough exterior departing in these points 

 from the typical structure of Humaria. The mature asco- 

 phores resemble superficially the apothecia of some lichens. 

 Specimen in Eehm's Ascom., n. 403, examined. 



** Dingy purple or violet. 



Humaria Phillipsii. Cke., Mycogr., p. 48, fig. 88; 

 Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 553. 



Scattered, fleshy, sessile, globose then concave, finally 

 expanding, |-1 cm. across, disc blackish-purple ; externally 

 a little paler, margin often rather irregular; subiculum 

 parenchymatous, cells more or less circular or polygonal, 

 10-18 IJL diameter, internally with a lilac tinge ; asci 

 cylindrical, apex rounded, 8-spored ; spores obliquely uni- 

 seriate, elliptical, ends rather acute, hyaline, continuous, 

 coarsely warted, warts hemispherical, 2428 x 1112 p. ; 

 paraphyses slender, septate, apex clavate, 4-5 /x. thick, tinged 

 lilac. 



Peziza Phillipsii, Cke., in Phillips, Brit. Disc., p. 90. 



Ascobolus amethysiinus, Phil., Grev., iv. p. 84. 



On damp sandy ground. 



Type specimen examined. 



Humaria violacea. Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 597. 



Ascophores gregarious, subsessile, contracted into a very 

 short, stout base ; fleshy and succulent, brittle, closed and 

 almost globose when quite young, then becoming saucer- 

 shaped, finally expanded with the disc more or less undulate 

 and the margin wavy ; disc dark brown with a violet tinge, 

 the violet colour becoming more pronounced as the fungus 

 dries ; outside pale violet near the margin, covered with a 

 dense white down near the base, 1-2-5 cm. across; hypo- 

 thecium composed of interwoven hyphae, which pass in the 

 excipulum into subglobose cells 25-35 p. diameter, but 

 mixed with hyphae and inflated cells, cortex parenchy- 

 matous, cells small ; asci cylindrical, apex truncate, base 

 stout, often somewhat bulbous, 8-spored; spores obliquely 

 uniseriate, hyaline, smooth, continuous, elliptic-oblong, ends 

 obtuse, usually 2-guttulate, 12-14 x 7-8 /A; paraphyses 

 slender, apex often rather wavy, clavate, yellowish-brown. 



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