HUMABIA.. 415 



The paraphyses are remarkably stout, clavate, distinctly 

 septate, and filled with orange-red granules upwards. 



Humaria maurilabra. Sacc, Syll., n. 474. 



Scattered, sessile, fleshy, concave, up to J cm. across ; 

 exoipulum parenchymatous, cells large, irregularly poly- 

 gonal, external ones brown, 16-25 fx, diameter, running out 

 at the margin into parallel, obtuse, septate, brown hyphae 

 that are more or less fasciculate, giving the margin a slightly 

 crenulate appearance ; numerous thick, elongated, branched 

 and septate brown hyphae spring from the lower cells of the 

 excipulum, and attach the fungus to the matrix ; disc flesh- 

 red or almost orange; asci cylindrical, apex rounded, 8r 

 spored ; spores elliptic-oblong, ends obtuse, smooth, hyaline, 

 continuous, usually 2-guttulate, 15-20 x 7-8 /ti, uniseriate, 

 paraphyses filiform, apex clavate, orange, 4-5 /u, thick, rarely 

 forked above. 



Peziza maurilabra, Cooke, Grev., vi. p. 64 ; Cke., Mycogr.y 

 fig. 388 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p, 94. 



On chips and on the ground. 



Type specimen examined. 



This somewhat resembles P. melaloma (A. & S.), but the 

 external cells and margin are distinctly difierent. (Cooke.) 



Humaria glumarum. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 504. 



Ascophores gregarious or crowded, sessile, but attached 

 by a central point ; when young globose and closed, ex- 

 ternally covered with delicate white down ; glabrous and 

 expanded, slightly concave or nearly plane when mature, 

 often wavy, disc orange-yellow, margin lather torn or 

 irregular, whitish, 5-8 mm. broad ; cortical cells rather 

 large, polygonal, excipulum parenchymatous ; asci cylindrical, 

 apex rounded, S-spored ; spores obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, 

 continuous, elliptic-oblong, ends obtuse, smooth, straight, 

 16-18 X 9-10 /i; paraphyses septate, becoming gradually 

 clavate upwards. 



Peziza glumarum, Desm., Ann. Sci. Nat., vol. xv. p. 129 

 (1841) ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p, 97. 



On chafi". Spring. 



Specimen in Desm., Cr. France, ser. i., n. 1054, examined.' 

 - The present species should be incl]ided in. the genus Mpllisia. 



