DIPLOCAEPA. 307 



Superficially resembing Dasyscypha coriicalis, but dis- 

 tinguished by the 3-septate spores. 



Found by Mr. C. Crossland, uear Halifax. 



Echinella Stockii. Mass. 



Grregarious or crowded, sessile, at first closed and almost 

 globose then becoming plane or the disc slightly concave 

 and dark buff when moist, externally reddish-brown (in old 

 specimens) ; sparingly covered with thin-walled, septate, 

 pale, cylindrical, obtuse hairs, longest at the margin, and 

 there measuring 50-70 x 6 /j, ; excipulum truly parenchy- 

 matous, cells small, cortical cells about 10 yn diameter, brown ; 

 about f mm. across, asci narrowly subcylindrical, 8-spored ; 

 spores 2-seriate, very narrowly fusiform, straight or slightly 

 curved, hyaline, smooth, 3-septate, 21-25 x 2-2i; paraphyses 

 about 2 /J. thick, almost cylindrical. 



Pezlza StocMi, Cke. & Phil., in Herb. Kew. 



Lachnella Stockii, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 261 



Belonidiwm Stockii, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2048. 



On dead herbaceous stems. 



Type specimen examined. 



DIPLOCAEPA. Mass. 



Ascophores minute, narrowed into a short stem-like base, 

 closed at first, then becoming nearly pjane, substance firm, 

 externally and the m.argin densely pilose, hairs thin-waUed, 

 cylindrical, septate ; hypothecium and excipulum parenchy- 

 matous, the cells becoming gradually larger towards the 

 cortex ; asci clavate, 8-spored ; spores 2 seriate, hyaline 

 finally 3-septate, paraphyses slender, bearing hyaline, septate 

 fusiform conidia at their tips. 



Lachnella, Phillips, Brit. Disc, p. 232. 



Peziza, Currey. 



Distinguished by the septate spores, and the large, septate, 

 fusiform conidia borne at the tips of the paraphyses. 



Growing on the ground. 



Diploearpa Curreyana. Mass. 

 Ascophore shortly stipitate, globose-depressed and closed 

 at first, then expanding, the margin persistently raised, 



X 2 



