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posing the soft, pallid, sometimes straw-coloured hyme- 
nium; asci oblong; sporidia very long and slender, 
filiform, flexuous, with a row of globose nuclei, at length 
repeatedly septate (B. and Br., l. ¢.). 
Name—renrdc, slender, ozépoc, a seed; from the 
shape of the sporidia. 
Jedburgh ! 
Genus III—Sramnaria. Fekl., “Symb. Myco.,” 309. 
Cups minute, cespitose, rarely scattered, distinctly 
stipitate, horny, diaphanous, glabrous, shining, globose- 
urceolate, hollow; mouth narrowed, truncate, and paler ; 
asci large, having 8 sporidia, which are in two rows, 
oblong, minutely guttulate, continuous, and hyaline. 
1. Stamnaria Persoonti. (Moug.) 
Cups subglobose or urceolate, glabrous, orange-red ; 
margin paler, texture horny; stem very short; asci 
cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, elongate-elliptic, guttu- 
late, 17—19 x 464; paraphyses filiform, branched, 
slightly enlarged at the apices. 
Peziza Persoonii—Moug. in Pers., “ Myco. Eur.,” i. 
p. 288, t. 12, f. 1; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 121; “Eng. 
Flo.,” v. p. 201; Grev., t. 162; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 
2088. Peziza Equisetti—Fries in MS. ; Gonn. and Rabh., 
ii.t.5,f.5. Lycoperdon Equisetti—Hotim., “ Crypt.,” t. 5, 
fi 1. Stamnaria Persoonii—Fckl., “Symb. Myco.,” 
p. 809. Phialea Persoonii—Gill., “ Champ.,” p. 106. 
Exs.—Libert, No. 329; Rabh., “Fung. Eur.,” 123; 
Fekl., “¥F. Rh.,” 1184, 2409, and 2507. 
On decaying Lquisetum, in moist places. Spring 
and summer. 
Cups 500 to 800 broad ; stem at times nearly absent, 
or very broad, equalling the breadth of the cup. The 
margin is often membranaceous, but entire, and paler 
than below. 
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