1 88 Massee and Crossland : New British Discomycetes. 



Humaria Roumegueri Sacc. 



On peaty ground in an old quarry, Crimple, near Harrogate, 

 Yorkshire (L. J. Cocks). 



Although not recorded for Britain at the time, a diagnosis of 

 this species is given in 1 British Fungus Flora,' IV., p. 413, on 

 the assumption that it would probably be discovered, as its var. 

 carnosissima Phill. is British. 



Humaria Nicholsonii Massee (sp. nov.). PI. 2, figs. 17-21. 



Gregarious, sessile, fleshy, globose at first, gradually becoming 

 plane, or sometimes slightly convex, marginate, glabrous, 4-7 mm. 

 across, orange-yellow, cortex parenchymatous, cells averaging 

 6-7 [m diameter ; asci cylindrical, 8-spored, 65-70 x 8-9 p ; spores 

 elliptical, smooth, hyaline, ends obtuse, i-guttulate, 10x6 /x ; 

 paraphyses filiform, apex not thickened. 



On dead beech leaves, Kew Gardens (G. Nicholson). 



Well defined by the small asci and spores, and the small cells 

 of the cortex. Not very near to any other known species. 

 Humaria leporum Cooke, Mycogr., fig. 75. 



This name must be substituted for that of Humaria misturce 

 (Phill.), Brit. Discom., p. 100; Massee, Brit. Fung. Fl. IV., 

 p. 423. 



Humaria fimeti Symb. Myc, App. I., p. 50. 



This name must replace that of Humaria bovina (Phill.). 

 Brit. Disc, p. 101 ; Massee, Brit. Fungus-Flora, IV., p. 423. 

 Humaria deerata Sacc, Syll. VIII., no. 550; Sopp. & CrossL, 

 'The Naturalist,' January 1889, p. 28, figs. 1-8. 



This species is certainly not a good Humaria, neither does it 

 agree with any established genus. Boudier has suggested the 

 generic name Pseudombrophila for the reception of this species, 

 but no workable diagnosis is given. 



Humaria Oocardii (Kalch.) Sacc, Syl. VI IT., n. 571 ; Rehm. 



Disc, p. 954; Mass. Brit. Fung. Flo., Vol. IV., p. 422. 

 Syn. Peltidium Oocardii Kalch. , Rabh. Fung. Europ., n. 521. 

 Peziza {Humaria) Oocardii Cooke, Mycogr., p. 28, fig. 47 ; 

 Phill., Brit. Disc, p. ^8..^ 

 Revised diagnosis made from freshly gathered British speci- 

 mens. 



Ascophores gregarious or scattered, sessile, pulvinate from 

 the first, Y^-\ cm. across, 2-2*5 mm - thick, emarginate, disc 

 red-brown, exterior pale ochrey-brown ; excipulum translucent, 

 gelatinous, whitish, composed of laxly interwoven, branched, 

 curled hyphae, 7-9 /x thick, which suddenly give place at the 



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