'444 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



habitat, warted spores, and tlie dark brown disc, which often 

 shows a tinge' of purple. 



Otidea apophysata. Cke. & Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 54; 

 Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 364. 



Sessile, caespitose or gregarious, irregular in form, margin 

 variously cut, erect, elongated on one side, rather thin, 1^- 

 2 J cm. across ; oxcipulum formed of hyaline, densely inter- 

 woven hyphae about 6 /i thick, these run out at the surface 

 into more or less parallel septate hyphae forming cells about 

 10-12 /A diameter, of a brown colour, and terminating in 

 irregular groups, giving a scurfy appearance to the dark 

 brown exterior of the ascophore; disc smooth, blackish- 

 brown ; asci cylindrical, 8-spored, apex somewhat truncate ; 

 spores obliquely 1-seriate, elongated, elliptical, continuous, 

 hyaline, smooth, usually 2-guttulate, 21-24 X 10 /t ; para- 

 physes slender, septate; apex very slightly thickened, 

 straight or slightly curved, sometimes with short irregular 

 branches. 



Peziza apophysata, Cke. & Phil., Grev., vol. v. p. 60 ; Cooke, 

 Mycogr., fig. 350. 



On the side of a wet ditch. 



Type specimen examined. 



Otidea micropus. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 366. 



Ascophore shortly stipitate, very oblique, cat's-ear shaped, 

 often wavy, rather thin, dingy white, pale buff, or greyish, 

 sometimes obliquely cup- or funnel-shaped, 2-3 cm. high and 

 broad ; excipulum composed of very large polygonal cells ; 

 these become much smaller towards the outside, are slightly 

 tinged brown, and grow out in irregular clusters, making 

 the outside coarsely scurfy ; stem, 3-5 mm. long and thick ; 

 sometimes absent ; asci cylindrical, apex rather truncate, 

 8-spored; paraphyses slender, straight, septate, apex clavate 

 and 5-6 /* thick ; spores obliquely uniseriate, elliptical, 

 continuous, smooth, protoplasm coarsely granular, 15-16 X 

 8-9 /i. 



Peziza micropus, Pers., Syn., p. 642 ; Pers., Icon, et Descr., 

 t. 8, fig. 3; Phil., Brit. Disc, p, 63 ; Cooke, Micogr., p. 1300. 



On old damp wood, rotting carpet, &c. 



Differs from 0. leporina in the straight paraphyses, and 

 from 0. onotica in the pale colour and larger spores. 



