382 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



slender, scarcely thickened upwards, often granular exter- 

 nally. 



SarcoscypJia tenuispora, C. & M., Grev., xxi. p. 121. 



On sticks and leaves lying on the ground. 



Usually attached by white mycelium to the matrix. 

 Eemarkable for the scarcely depressed disc, and the narrow 

 spores. 



** Externally scurfy or verruculose. 



Geopyxis cupularis. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 246. 



Ascophore stipitate, hemispherical, margin erect, irregu- 

 larly crenulate, thin; disc fawn-colour or yellowish, exter- 

 nally similar in colour or paler, rather coarsely scurfy ; 

 excipulum parenchymatous, cells irregularly polygonal, 

 8-12 fj. diameter, forming irregular groups at the periphery 

 and causing the sourfiness of the exterior ; 1—2 cm. across ; 

 stem slender, somewhat rooting, 1 cm. long, or sometimes 

 almost obsolete, and then the base of the ascophore is often 

 more or less puckered ; asci cylindrical, apex rounded, base 

 narrowed, 8-spored; spores 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, 

 broadly elliptical, ends obtuse, often 1-2-guttulate. 18-20 x 

 10-12 yu.; paraph j'ses slender, hyaline, septate, slightly 

 clavate at the tip. 



Peziza cupularis, Linn., Suec, n. 1273 ; Phil., Brit., Disc, 

 p. 47, pi. iii., fig. 12. 



On the ground, in damp places among moss, &o. 



Specimens examined from Phillips, Elv. Brit., n. 155, and 

 Eehm, Ascomy., n. 8. 



Possesses many points in common with G. carhonaria, as 

 the crenulate margin, and variability in length of stem, but 

 known by the duller colour, and broader spores. 



Geopyxis petaloidea. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 225. 

 Ascophore stipitate, fleshy and firm, margin deeply and 

 irregularly lobed and waved ; disc rugose, yellowish-brown, 

 externally dingy-brown, scurfy or verrucose, base rugose ; 

 excipulum parenchymatous, about 1 cm. across; stem up to 

 1 cm. long, tapering to the base ; asci narrowly cylindrical, 

 apex rounded, 8-spored.; spores obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, 

 continuous, verruculose, elliptical, often guttulate, 14-15 x 



