humaeia. 423 



Peziza hrunneo-atra, Desm., Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. ii., vol. vi. 

 p. 244 (1836); PhU., Brit. Disc, p. 76. 



On tie naked ground. 



Fuckel, in describing the spores of H. macrogpora does not 

 state whether they are rough or smooth, but quotes Fung 

 Ehen., n. 1223, in which the spores are distinctly warted 

 Cooke drew the figure in Mycographia, n. 77, and prepared 

 the diagnosis of H. macrocarpa from Fuckel's specimens, 

 Fung. Khen., n. 1223, and figured and described the spores 

 as smooth, but there is a MS. note on the figure stating that 

 the spores were afterwards found to be warted. 



Specimens in Desm., Cr. France, ser. L, n. 826, and in 

 Fuckel's Fung. Ehen., n. 1223, examined. 



Humaria misturae. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 565. 



Scattered or crowded, sessile, depresso-globose and closed 

 at first, becoming plane or slightly convex, with an im- 

 perfectly upraised ' margin, rather fleshy, 1—3 mm. across, 

 glabrous, chestnut-brown or sometimes almost brick-red; 

 cortex parenchymatous, ceUs almost oblong, arranged in 

 parallel series, 6—7 X 4 /a ; asci rather broadly cylindrical, 

 apex rounded, 8-spored; spores hyaline, continuous, broadly 

 elliptical or sometimes almost globose, often 1-guttulate, 

 12—14 X 10 /A, 1 -seriate ; paraphyses slender, septate, hyaline, 

 irregularly branched, tips often rather closely septate, and 

 constricted at the septa, pyriform or sometimes not enlarged. 



Peziza misturae, Phil., Gard. Chron., Sept. 4, 1880, with a 

 fig. ; Brit. Disc, p. 100. 



First found on a mixture of lime and cow-dung spread on 

 the trunks of apple-trees; beautiful specimens were after- 

 wards found on the ground by Mr. H. T. Soppitt, near 

 Bradford. 



The cells forming the exterior of the cup are narrowly 

 cylindrical and parallel ; the paraphyses are remarkable 

 from their habit of branching frequently, and from their 

 pyriform or moniliform summits, which characters distinguish 

 it from P. excidiiformis, to which it has a slight resemblance. 

 (PhilHps.) 



Humaria bovina. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 580. 

 Ascophores gregarious, sessile, with an obconic base, 

 expanded, umber colour, glabrous ; disc umbilicate, waved ; 



