412 FUNGXJS-FLOEA. 



18-20 X 8-9 /a; paraphyses septate, the davate tips filled 

 with orange granules when fresh. 



Peziza macrocystis, Cooke, Mycogr., fig. 63 ; Phil., Brit. 

 Disc, p. 91. ' 



Peziza suhhirsuta, var. macrocystis, Cooke, Grev., vol. i. 

 p. 129. 



On burnt ground. 



Type specimen examined, also specimens in Cooke, Tung. 

 Brit., ed. ii. n. 661, and Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 59. 



Humaria axillaris. Sacc, Syll., n. 507. 



Ascophore about 1 mm. across, sessile, fit shy, disc only 

 slightly depressed, orange; margin thick, obtuse ; externally 

 similarly coloured, base paler, glabrous except towards the 

 base where stout septate colourless hyphae spring from the 

 cells of the excipulum, and attach the fungus to ihe moss on 

 which it grows; asci cylindrical, apex obtuse, base narrowed 

 into a periicel; spores 8, obliquely uniseriate, hyaline, 

 smooth, elliptical, ends obtuse, usually with 1-2 large 

 guttulae, 17-24 x 7-10 /x ; paraphyses numerous, slender, 

 apex slightly clavate and filled with orange granules when 

 fresh. 



Peziza axillaris, "Nees, Syht., p. 258, f. 267; Phil., Brit. 

 Disc, p. 93. 



In the axil of the leaves of several species of moss. 



This species is evidently a Mollisia, and is placed here hy 

 iiiistalce. 



The fungus is probably a true parasite, as it occurs on 

 living mosses, seated in the axil of a leaf, and attached by 

 stout white hyphae. The spores are variable in size, but I 

 have not found them so small as indicated by Phillips, either 

 in British or continental specimens. 



Humaria oUaris. Sacc, Sj'll., viii. n. 513. 

 Gregarious or usually crowded, sessile, closed and hemi- 

 spherical at first, then expanded and more or less plane, up 

 to 1^ tm. across ; disc orange-yellow, externally paler, 

 margin minutely downy, especially when young, due to the 

 presence of cylindrical, obtuse, septate hairs, 12-18 fj, thick ; 

 excipulum composed of radially parallel septate hyphae, 

 passing into parenchyma of large polygonal cells at the 

 cortex ; asci cylindrical^ 8'Sporecli ; spores obliquely 1-seriate, 



