SPHAEEOSOMA — CUREEYELLA. 401 



Specimens in Herb. Berk., Kew, collected by tbe late 

 G. E. Broome, M.A., near Bristol, examined. 



CUEEEYELLA. Mass. (u. g.) 



Ascophore sessile, flesby, rather large, expanded at 

 maturity ; excipnium pseudoparencbymatous ; asci cylin- 

 drical, 8-spoTed ; spores globose, 1-seiiate, coloured at 

 inaturity; paraph yses septate, clavate. 



Peziza, Currey, Linn. Trans., vol. xxiv. p. 493. 



Distinguished by the discoid ascophore and the perfectly 

 globose spores, which in the British species are clear brown, 

 and rather coarsely watted at maturity. 



Distinguished from Detonia, as defined by Saccardo, by 

 the coloured spores. 



Sphaerosoma differs in the ascophores being persistently 

 irregularly globose and crumpled. 



Curreyella radula. Mass. 



Ascophore sessile, at first globose and closed, becoming 

 expanded and saucer-shaped, rather fleshy, 2-3 cm. diameter, 

 disc brown, or with a red tinge, externally blackish, warted, 

 the warts formed by outgrowths of the large, polygonal, 

 cortical cells ; excipulum parenchj'matous ; asci cylindrical, 

 apex rounded, pedicel short, stout, oblique, 8-spored ; spores 

 1-seriate, globose, warted, pale brown at maturity, 21-23 /jl ; 

 paraphyses rather stout, septate, clavate, tip 6—6 /a thick. 



Peziza radula, B. & Br., Ann. Sci. Nat., vol. xviii. p. 77 

 (1846) ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 71, pi. iv. fig. 17. 



Phaeopezia radula, Sacc, SylL, viii. n. 1959. 



On the ground in woods. 



Type specimen examined. 



Cup depressed, sessile, nearly an inch across, black ex- 

 ternally, broken into nearly equal, distinct, suboonical 

 warts, like those of Genea verrucosa ; hymenium of a dark 

 vinous brown; asci large, obtuse; spores large, globose, 

 rough with obtuse, distinct tubercles ; paraphyses septate, 

 with the ultimate articulation clavate. (B. & Br.) 



Curreyella trachycarpa. Mass. 

 Ascophore at first subglobose and closed, soon becoming 

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