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BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Notes and Additions No. 2. 
By William Phillips, F.L.S. 
Feziza perlata, Fr. 
Caps large, shortly stipitate, at first subglobose, then expanded, 
undulate, splitting at the margin ; externally white, even ; 
hymenium wrinkled, pale cinnamon ; stem stout, lacunose, white ; 
flesh thick ; asci cylindraceo-clavate, attenuated below the sporidia, 
truncate at the summit ; sporidia 8, elliptic, pale brown, smooth, 
15-20 x 10-12 p] paraphyses numerous, rather stout, septate, 
guttulate, broadly clavate at the summit, brown. 
Feziza perlata , Fries Sys. Myc. ii., 43 ; Karst. Myco. Fenti. 
p. 39 ; Cooke Myco. fig. 239. Discina perlata, Fries, Sverige 
Svampar, t. 56. 
Exs. Karst. Fung. Fenn. 531. 
On burnt charcoal beds. 
Cups 2^in. broad before expanding, 3Jin., or even more, when 
expanded. Stem -|in. long, Jin. broad ; flesh at base of cup ^in. 
thick, near the margin 1 line thick. The sporidia are pale brown, 
and homogeneous within. Karsten found the sporidia in his 
specimens elliptic or fuso-elliptic, and 1-3 guttulate, neither of 
which characters were present in my specimens. Still, I have no 
doubt they are correctly referable to this species. 
I am indebted for this handsome plant to the kindness of my 
friend, the Rev. G. H. Sawyer. 
Near Guildford, Surrey ! December, 1888. 
ftlollisia atxata, £. Ebuli (Fr.). 
Erumpent, gregarious, minute, sessile, at first globose, urceolate, 
at length expanded, concave, cinereous- black, margin thin, paler ; 
hymenium when moist cinereous, when dry black ; asci cylindraceo 
clavate, broad at the base ; sporidia 8, sub-clavate or sub-cylin- 
drical, simple, 8, 10 x 2 — 2, 5 p; paraphyses filiform, slender, 
sparse. 
Peziza atrata , /3 Ebuli , Fr. Sys. Myc. ii., p. 148 ; Pyrenopeziza 
atrata , fi Ebuli , Fckl. Symb. p. 294. 
Exs. Fckl. F. Rh. 1869. 
On dead stems of Sambucus ebulus. July. 
The cups are 200-500 p broad (^-’brnm.), and at first covered 
by the epidermis, which at length is ruptured by them. The asci 
are 40-50 p long, 7-8 p broad. The pseudo- parenchyma of the cup 
passes near the margin into a nearly colourless fibroso-cellular 
tissue, as in all this group. 
Middlehope, Shropshire ! 
