404 FUJfGUS-FIiOEA. 



slightly curvbd, 3-5 septate at maturity, 23-26 X 6-6 f- : 

 paraphyses slender, hyaline, scarcely thickened at the tips. 



Peziza quisquilarum, B. & C, Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. x. 

 p. '366, n. 670. 



Gn fi-algments of decaying twigs, &c., on the damp 

 ground. 



Type specimen examined. 



HUMAEIA. Fries. 



Ascophore sessile, fleshy, closed at first, finally becoming 

 saucer-shaped or plane ; glabrous, at all events for some 

 distance downwards from the margin, the lower portion in 

 some species giving origin to numerous hyphae which form 

 a spreading subiculum ; cortical cells polygonal, often run- 

 ning out into parallel, septate hyphae and forming a 

 minutely fimbriate margin ; asci cylindrical, 8-spored ; spores 

 continuous, hyaline, elliptical or fusiform, obliquely 1-seriate ; 

 paraphyses present. 



Humaria, Fries, Syst. Mys., ii. p. 42 (as a subgenus of 

 Peziza) ; Sacc, Syll., viii. p. 118 (in part). 



The species are generally small, rarely reaching 1 cm. in 

 diameter. Closely allied to Peziza, which differs more 

 especially in the ascophores being larger, and granular or 

 scurfy externally. Neottiella differs in being distinctly vil- 

 lose or downy outside. The species of Tapesia agree with 

 certain members of the present genus in having a tapesium, 

 but are distinguished by growing on wood. The species of 

 Mollisia also grow on plants. 



Growing on the ground. 



• * Disc red, orange-red, or yellowish. 



Humaria Chateri. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 457. 

 Densely caespitose, rarely scattered, sessile,' fleshy, •closed 

 u t 'first, : then expanded ; margin erect or slightly incurved, 

 minutely finjbriate, dark brown; disp deep orange-red or 

 ■crimson, externally pale reddish-brown, J-1 cm. across, oft^n 

 irregular in form from mutual pressure; hypothecium ;and 

 excipulum parenchymatous, cortical cells iriegularly poly- 



