PEZiZA. 437 



elliptical, hyaline, 1-2-guttulate, minutely warted, 17-18 X 

 8—9 ju., 1-seriate ; paraphyses stout, septate, slightly and 

 gradually clavate ; a quantity of violet liquid exudes when 

 the fresh plant ia wounded. 



Galactinia saniosa, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 396. 



On the ground and on old trunks in damp, shady places. 



Specimen determined by Berkeley accepted as typical, 

 which certainly has verruculose spores. Phillips says the 

 spores are smooth, and he quotes the figure hy Patouillard, 

 Icon. Analyt., fig. 375, where the spores are drawn distinctly 

 warted. The specimens from Apethorpe, and near Bristol, 

 are in the Kew Herharium, and both have warted spores. 



Phillips figures what he supposed to be Peziza saniosa, 

 Schrader, in " Grevillea," ii. pi. 24, fig. 3, and there the 

 spores are drawn smooth ; in Brit. Disc, the spores are said 

 to be smooth, and to measure 15 x 7 • 5 /x ; finally, the figure 

 by Cooke in Mycographia, fig. 299, " figured from drawings 

 and specimens communicated by Mr. W. Phillips," has 

 smooth spores. The specimens said to have been com- 

 municated by Phillips, I cannot find in Cooke's Herbarium. 

 As the matter stands at present, we may consider that 

 Schrader's Peziza saniosa has minutely warted spores ; 

 specimens showing this character have been examined from 

 Britain, France, and Germany. The specimens examined 

 by Phillips have possibly been immature, and hence the 

 spores would be smooth ; or belong to a distinct species 

 differing from P. saniosa in the permanently smooth spores. 



Peziza lividula. Phil., in Cooke's Mycogr., p. 161, 

 fig. 277 ; Brit. Disc, p. 76, pi. iv. fig. 18 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. 

 n. 339. 



Ascophore obconic and closed at first, then expanding and 

 somewhat wavy, margin entire, attached by a narrowed 

 base : 1-2 cm. across ; externally almost glabrous ; entirely 

 hmoky lead-colour, often with a purple shade, fleshy; exci- 

 pulum entirely parenchymatous, cells irregularly polygonal, 

 largest at the periphery ; asci cylindrical, 8-spored ; spores 

 obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, often 1-2-guttulate, 

 elliptical, ends obtuse, at first smooth, finally very minutely 

 verruculose, 18—20 X 10 /x ; paraphyses septate, tips clavate 

 or almost capitate sometimes. 



