390 • FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



exposed at maturity, depresso-globose and entirely closed 

 when young, then opening by a small mouth, the margin 

 becoming split into pointed segments to a greater or less' 

 extent, 2-6 cm. across; disc yellowish-brown, externally 

 yellowish-brown or dingy, densely villose and more or less 

 coated with sand or earth, hairs cylindrical, simple or 

 frequently branched, septate, coloured, elongated and in- 

 tricately felted, 6-10 /x thick; asci cylindrical, 8-spored ; 

 spores obliquely 1-seriate, smooth, hyaline, continuous, 

 elliptical, ends obtuse, 18-22 x 10-12 /*; paraphyses slender, 

 septate, the brownish apex slightly thickened. 



Peziza sepulta, Pries, Nov. Symb. Myc, p. 126; Cooke,' 

 Mycogr., fig. 112. 



Lachnea sepulta, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 209, pi. vi. fig. 39 ; 

 Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 684. 



Peziza geaster, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., nos. 956 and 1162, 

 pi. iv. fig. 26 ; Cke., Mycogr., fig. 114. 



Lachnea geaster, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 210 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. 

 n. 693. 



In the ground. 



The type specimens of P. geaster, B. & Br., are somewhat 

 smaller in size than specimens of P. sepulta, Fr., specimens 

 of which, named and communicated by Fries, are in Herb. 

 Berk., but in other respects the two are identical. 



Sepultaria arenicola. Mass. 

 Ascophore sessile, subterranean, subglobose then ex- 

 panding, but the margin remains persistently more or less 

 incurved, and usually becomes split and irregularly toothed, 

 1-2 cm. across ; waxy ; clothed externally with a dense coat 

 of flexuous, interwoven, septate, brown hairs 4-5 /t thick ; 

 excipulum parenchymatous, cells irregularly polygonal, 

 15-30 //. diameter, passing into a closely packed row of 

 parallel, sUghtly clavate, elongated, septate cells at the 

 margin, olive-brown; disc pale tan-colour or brownish, 

 sometimes with a tinge of pink; asci cj'lindrical, apex 

 rounded, base narrowed into a pedicel, 8-spored; spores 

 obliquely uniseriate, smooth, hyaline, continuous, broadly 

 elliptical, ends rounded, usually 1-guttulate, 20-22 x 

 11-12 /a; paraphyses filiform, straight, slightly clavate, 4 yu, 

 thick at the apex. - 



