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Peziza gilva Boud. Icon. 37. 



Pesiza {Sarcoscypha) gilva Mycogr. , p. 240, fig. 406. 



On sandy ground, among moss, river side, Hebden Bridge, 

 September, 1905. Crossland and Needham. First British 

 record. Previously recorded for France only. Closely allied 

 to L. fimbriata Quel. 



M. Boudier has established a genus Tricharia in which he 

 includes this sp. 



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

 Massee's Biit. Fung. Flo., iv., p. 417 ; Sacc. Syll., viii.,n. 553. 

 Redescribed from freshly gathered specimens. Ascophores 

 sessile, scattered, at first sphaerical, then expanded but deeply 

 concave, fleshy, slightly gelatinous, 3-4 lines across, disc dark 

 bluish purple, exterior dark purple, minutely rough with small 

 tufts of cells 8-10 X 6-8 [jl, margin somewhat evenly crenulate- 

 serrate with tufts of 3-4 septate hyphae 80-90 X 7-10 /x ; cortex 

 of circular cells 10-18 /a, two to three cells thick, hypothecium 

 and inner portion of excipulum of densely interwoven hyphae, 

 which suddenly give place to the globose cells forming the 

 cortex, the basal cells give rise to septate, hyaline hyphae, 5-6 //. 

 thick, which penetrate the soil. Asci cylindrical, apex rounded, 

 8 spored, 270-290 X 15 jU.; Spores obliquely i-seriate, continuous, 

 hyaline, elliptical, ends rather acute, coarsely warted, warts 

 hemispherical, in optical section 7-8 down each side, 22-23 ^ 

 12 [x.. Paraphyses septate, 4 ju. thick below, 5 ju. at the slightly 

 swollen apex. 



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



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



This most interesting peziza, apparently only once previously 

 found, was met with by W. A. Thwaites in sawmill yard, on 

 sandy soil by the river side, Swinton, near Masham, Sep., 1905. 

 The first record (Grev. iv., p. 84), is by the late W. Phillips, 

 •on sandy ground on the margin of the river Severn, Shrews- 

 bury, Oct., 1875. 



It was named Ascobolus amethysthiiis on account of its colour, 

 and the spores appearing to become purple. Later, however, 

 it was found the spores are permanently hyaline, thus proving 

 it not to be an Ascobolus, and Cooke re-named it Peziza 

 Phillipsii. 



The dark purple colour pervades the whole structure with 

 the exception of the asci, spores, and the hyphae given off by 

 the basal cells. The following remark accompanies the original 

 description : ' The cells composing the exterior are of a beautiful 



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