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Transactions. Sporidia uniseriate, linear-oblong, •0005-*0006 

 inch long. 



Plate IV. fig. 22. a. asci, magnified ; b. sporidia, more highly mag- 

 g;jified. 



*P. (Sarcoscyphse) radiculata, Sow. t. 114. 

 Fine specimens of this rare species have been found this year 

 by Mr. Jerdon near Jedburgh, in a fir-wood. 



Sporidia '0005 inch long, rather broad, binucleate. 



Plate IV. fig. 23. Sporidia, highly magnified. 



Fig. 24. a. ascus of the same species in Rabenhorst, specimen no. 618; 

 h. sporidia of ditto ('OOO/ inch long), more highly magnified. 



1161. P. (Sarcoscyphse) lanuginosa, Bull. tab. 396. fig. 2. 

 Var. Sumneri cupula demum radiato-fissa, margine junioris an- 

 guste nudo. 



Under cedars. Fetchara Park, Mrs. Holme Sumner. Chis- 

 wick House, Mr. Edmonds, Jan.-May. Under a larch, Wilson 

 Saunders, Esq. 



At first entirely buried, then forcing its way through the soil, 

 and splitting into several lobes, like a Geaster, which it much 

 resembles from its thick substance. The outer coat is densely 

 clothed with flexuous hairs, very different from those of Peziza 

 hemispheerica. The sporidia, moreover, are shortly and bluntly 

 fusiform. 



A large and magnificent species, acquiring frequently a dia- 

 meter of 2 inches, and combining in some measure the characters 

 of P. sepulta and P. hemispharica , from both of which it differs 

 ma. 'rially in the subfusiform fruit. It has also a very close 

 affinii • to Tulasne's genus Hydrocystis. It has been observed 

 for n^ ly years at Fetcham, but has not hitherto been recorded 

 as r itish. Bulliard's plant is considered by Fries a variety 

 of -'. /lemispharica, but it is really very difierent. In plants 

 which are just open a delicate veil is often found stretched over 

 the orifice. 



A figure and analysis of this fine fungus will appear in the 

 forthcoming number of the Linnean Transactions. 



Plate IV. fig. 25. a. hairs from outer surface, magnified ; b. ascus 

 with paraphyses, ditto ; c. sporidia, highly magnified. 



1162. P. (Sarcoscyphse) Geaster, n. s. Brunnea, cupula sub- 

 globosa, floccosa, demum radiato-fissa. 



On the ground. Wentworth, Oct. 9, 1858, Mr. J. Henderson. 



About an inch across; hairs flexuous, branched, articulated, 

 often giving out little curved hyaline processes with a few straight 

 bristles intermixed. Hymenium brown like the rest of the 

 plant. Paraphyses clavate ; sporidia elliptic, with the ends very 

 slightly attenuated, '0009 inch long. The sporidia of P. sepulta, 

 a much coarser species, are of the same length. 



