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broadly. elliptic, 18—20 x 10—12u; paraphyses linear, 
clavate at the apices. (Plate V. fig. 23.) 
Peziza Babingtonii—Berk., “ Ann, Nat. Hist.,” No. 
554. Psilopezia Babingtonii—Berk., “Outl,” p. 378; 
Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2162. 
On rotten wood. 
Cup 4 an inch or more broad, contracting greatly in 
drying, irregular in outline, convex above, mouse-brown ; 
concave beneath, and slightly wrinkled, pale watery 
brown, fixed by the border ; asci linear; spores broadly 
ape paraphyses linear, their apices clavate (B. and 
r., le). 
Name—After the Rev. C. Babington. 
Grace Dieu Wood, Leicestershire! (Rev. C. Babington). 
B. HYMENIUM GREENISH-BLACK. 
2. Psilopezia myrothecioides. B. and Br. 
Sub-orbicular; margin laciniate, tomentose, pallid 
yellow; hymenium greenish-black ; asci linear; sporidia 
8, elliptic, margin pellucid, 17—19 x 10—13u; para- 
physes filiform, broadly clavate and brown at the apices. 
Psilopezia myrothecioides—B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. 
. Hist.,” No. 1489, t. ii. f. 5; “ Grevillea,” iii. p. 122. 
- On Prunus padus. 
Two to five lines broad. The asci are cylindrical, 
200u long, 174 broad. The clavate apices of the para- 
physes are 10 to 13u broad, and brownish. The cells of 
the excipulum are 20 to 30u broad. 
Name—WMyrothecium, a genus of fungi, «doe, likeness 
resembling a Myrothecium. 
New Pitsligo (Rev. J. Fergusson). 
Gexvus IIJ.—HymenoscyrnHa. Fries. 
Opening freely, naked, glabrous; cup thin, membra- 
naceous, but sufficiently firm, supported by the slender 
sub-equal stem; hymenium distinct; asci large, clavate 
