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always appeared to us that this plant is a Cyphello ; and we believe 

 it to be identical with G. Curreyi, B. & Br. 



Peziza snbferruginea, Nyl. = P. araneosa, Sow. — Whatever Bul- 

 liard's plant may be, it cannot be identical with Sowerby's, as it 

 agrees with it neither in characters nor in its place of groAvth. 

 Peziza geminella, Nyl., is remarkable for its 2-spored asci. 

 Peziza macrospora (Bagl.), Nyl. p. 66, seems to come very near to 

 PateUaria proxima, B. & Br., the fruit corresponding closely. 



Thirty-one new species of the genus Peziza are described, viz. : — 

 P. caligata, Nyl. ; P. Jluctuans, Nyl. = P.p(?vZrtto, Karsten ; P. furva, 

 Nyl. ; P. cariina, Karsten ; P. Juteo-pallens, Nyl. ; P. articulata, 

 Karsten ; P. fulvescens, Nyl. ; P. asperior, Nyl. ; P. improvisa, Kar- 

 sten ; P. juncijida, Nyl. ; P. aruginella, Karsten ; P. ceruginascens, 

 Nyl. = P. ceruginosa auctorum ; P. suhferruginea, Nyl. ; P. suhspa- 

 dicea, Nyl. ; P. alniella, Nyl. ; P. gemineUa, Nyl. ; P. eucrita, Kar- 

 sten ; P. aurelieUa, Nyl. ; P. si(hfarfuracea, Nyl. ; P. liymeniophila, 

 Karsten ; P. luteo-rubella, Nyl. ; P. rtibinella, Nyl. ; P. liyalinula, 

 Nyl. ; P. epijiora, Nyl. ; P. pteridina, Nyl. = P. pteridis, Karsten ; 

 P. lividula, Nyl. ; P. atratula, Nyl. =P. atrata, Fr. ; P. subcrenidata, 

 Nyl. ; P. ampldhola (Mass.), Hei)p ; P. macrospora, Bagl. ; P. vari- 

 ella, Nyl. 



Dr. Nylander describes some other fungi which come near the 

 Prt^e?/rtnrt-section of Peziza, hitherto only distinguished generically 

 with difficulty, and gives characters, derived from the fruit, tending 

 greatly to remove that objection, if they hold good throughout. 

 The genus Tympanis, he observes, is characterized by dimorphism 

 in the asci, the same apothecia containing asci filled with innumer- 

 able minute, curved sporidia, and others occupied by a few (eight to 

 twenty-four) larger ones. A similar fact occurs, however, in certain 

 Nectriat, as N. ciiCKrbitula,Fr. and N. inaurafa, B. & Br. M. Tulasne 

 considers (Carpologia, iii. p. 87) JS^. aqidfoUa, B., and N. inaurata, 

 B. & Br., to belong to one species ; but it seems to us that the dif- 

 ferences in the fruit, as well as in the pcrithecia, are amply sufficient 

 to pronounce them distinct. N. cucurhitida, Fr., would appear to 

 come much closer to iV. inaurata, B. & Br., than would iV^. aquifoUa, B. 

 Dr. Nylander traced both forms of asci from an early stage to ma- 

 turity, without perceiving any tendency in the minute curved bodies 

 to unite and so form the larger kind of fruit, as De Notaris seemed 

 to think, but each maintained its own form to the last. He also 

 found spermagonia with spermatia. A fourth form of fruit occurred 

 to Messrs. Berkeley and Broome in the case of Tympanis saligna, an 

 account of which was published in Hooker's ' Journal of Botany,' 1851, 

 vol. iii. p. 319, where fruit was found like that of DipJodia, unless it 

 was founded on incorrect observation, as is suggested by M. Tulasne 

 in the third vol. of his ' Carpologia,' p. 154. 



The following new species of Tympanis are described : — Tympanis 

 confusa, Nyl. = PateUaria atrata, Fr. ; T. sperniatiospora, Nyl. ; T. 

 amphiholoides, Nyl., and v. hypopodiza, Nyl. ; T. hypopodia, Nyl. 



The author has pursued the same method in his exposition of the 

 Peziza'. of Finland as ia his ' Lichenographia,' expressing in as few 

 words as possible the essential characters of everj^ species. He 



