422 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Peziza cervaria, Pb.il., in Stevenson's Myco. Scot., p. 308 ; 

 Brit., Disc., p. 100. 



On roedeer dung. 



Ascophoie |-2 lines broad. 



This species closely resembles P. hepatica (Batsch), but 

 differs in having much smaller spores, and slenderer para- 

 ph vses, not thickened at the apices, and forked. 



Not examined. The above is from Brit. Disc., p. 100. 



Humaria Oocardi. Sacc., Syll., riii. n. 571. 



Scattered or gregarious, sessile, orbicular, minutely scabrid 

 externally and pallid-brown or rufous brown, disc sometimes 

 dingy orange-brown, plane or slightly convex, fleshy, blackish 

 and collapsed when dry, 3-5 mm. across ; hypotheciuin, 

 excipulum and cortex dense, texture indistinct, somewhat 

 gelatinous ; as<;i stout, cylindrical, tips rounded, 8-spored ; 

 spores obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, smooth, continuous, 

 broadly elliptical, ends blunt, often 1-2-guttulate, 18-20 x 

 12 fj.; paraphyses septate, tips brown, clavate, 68 /* thick. 



Peltidium Oocardii, Kalchbr., in Rab., Fung. Eur., n. 521. 



Peziza Oocardii, Cooke, Mycogr., fig. 47 ; Phil., Brit. Disc., 

 p. 98. 



On stones among fresh-water algae, in streams, also on 

 rotten pine- wood. 



Karsten's var. ligniaria only differs in growing on wet 

 rotten wood. 



Specimen from Kalchbrenner examined, also Rab., Fung. 

 Eur., n. 521, and Karsten, Fung. Fenn., 636. 



Humaria macrospora. Fckl., Symb. Myc., p. 323; 

 Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 576. 



Ascophore sessile, at first closed and subglobose then 

 expanding and becoming almost plane and scutellate, fleshy, 

 fragile, glabrous, blackish-chestnut, 11^ cm. across ; exci- 

 pulum parenchymatous, cortical cells 15-20 //, diameter ; asci 

 narrowly cylindrical, base narrowed into a long, slender 

 pedicel, 8-spored ; spores obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, con- 

 tinuous, elliptical, ends rather acute, distinctly warted at 

 maturity, 20-22 x 10 /x, paraphyses slightly thickened at 

 the brownish tips, septate. 



Peziza macrospora, Wallroth, Crypt. Germ., ii. p. 500 

 (1831-33); Cooke, Mycogr., fig. 77 (spores smooth by error). 



