DASYSCYPHA. 355 



Lib., Crypt. Ard., n. 125, as do also the British, specimens 

 from Carlisle. 



Dasyscypha comitessae. Sacc, SylL, viii. n. 1832. 



Ascophores caespitose, gregarious, or scattered, stipitate, 

 clavate and closed at first, then expanded, 2—3 mm. across ; 

 disc blight golden-yellow, externally pale yellow and mi- 

 nutely tomentose, hairs cylindrical, obtuse, thin- walled, 

 septate, minately rough, very faintly- tinged yellow, 40-70 X 

 4r-b fi.; cortical celL> irregularly polygonal, 6-S /u. diameter ; 

 stem 2—3 mm. long, expanding upwards ; as a rule the stem 

 branches into 3—4 portions at the base, each branch bearing 

 an ascophore ; asci cylindrie-olavate, apex narrowed, base 

 or pedicel short, stout, 8-spored; spores 2 -seriate, hyaline, 

 continuous, elliptical, ends often rather acute, 6-7 x 2-5/i; 

 paraphyses hyaline, slender, cylindrical. 



Peziza comitessae, Cke., (irev., iv. p. 111. 



Lachnella comitessae, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 243. 



On bark of a fallen tree (alder ?). 



Agreeing in colour and in the branching stem with D. 

 pygmaea, but differs in having very slender, cylindrical para- 

 physes not longer than the asci. W hen dry the fungus is 

 almost white externally, and superficially resembles D. 

 calycina and B. resinaria, but differs in not growing on 

 conifers, also in the spores. 



Type specimen examined. 



Dasyscypha puberula. Mass. 



Scattered or gregarious, sessile but narrowed into a very 

 short, stem-like base, closed and almost globose at first, then 

 becoming almost or quite plane, very thin and delicate, very 

 pale yellow or whitish, about ^ mm. across ; externally and 

 the margin pubescent, hairs cylindrical, obtuse, 1— 2-septat6 

 8-16 X 3-4 fjL, colourless, thin- walled ; cortex parenchyma- 

 tous, cells irregularly polygonal, 6—7 /i diameter ; asci cla- 

 vate, tip narrowed, pedicel elongated, rather stout, often 

 crooked, 8-spored; spores irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, 

 smooth, continuous, narrowly- elliptic-fusiform, straight, 

 8-1 1 X 3-3 • 5 /A ; paraphyses slender, cylindrical, same length 

 as the asci, hyaline. 



Peziza puberula, Lasch, in Klotzsch, Herb. Myc. n. 1529 (a 

 specimen examined). 



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