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EXOTIC FUNGI. 
On palm petioles. Nilgherries, India. 
Cups |-1 m.m. broad, 1 m.m. high. Hyaline delicate hairs of 
the cup scarcely 50 fx. long. 
Ascobolus sarawacensis, Cesati. 
Cups soon hemispherical, fleshy, brown (5 m.m. diam.), margin 
paler, granular as well as the external surface, flexuous when old, 
disc a little darker than the exterior. Asci cylindricaily clavate, 
octosporous, sporidia elliptical, hyaline, then brown with a tinge of 
violet, smooth, 27-30 x 13-14 /x, paraphyses filiform. 
On buffalo dung. Sarawak. (Beccari, 226.) 
Ascobolus piceus, Limminghe. 
Cups semi-immersed, globose, then hemispherical (-| m.m. diam.), 
brown, smooth, disc flesh-coloured, concave. Asci subclavate, 
octosporous. Sporidia elongated, elliptical, at length tawny brown ; 
smooth, 30-32 x 12 /x, paraphyses thick, brown at the tips. 
Peziza picea, Limm. in Herb. 
On sandy soil. 
Ascophanus lilacinus, Cooke. 
Minute (0'3-0*8 m.m. diam.), gregarious, cups urceolate, smooth, 
pale lilac ; disc slightly concave, papillate ; asci rather fusoid- 
clavate, octosporous, sporidia elliptical, hyaline, smooth (20 x 
10 /x), paraphyses filiform, longer than the asci, but not sensibly 
thickened at the tips. 
On horse dung. New York. (Gerard, 67.) 
Midotis crispata, Berk, Cwrtf.^Lachnea crispata, Sacc. Syll., No. 682 . 
This cannot belong to the Pezizece at all, from its tough, 
leathery consistency. There are no hairs to be found anywhere on 
its surface, so that it could not possibly be a Lachnea ; the only 
tomentum is that by which it is attached to the wood as a mycelium. 
Asci cylindrical, large, sporidia 8 elliptical, curved, or unequal- 
sided, binucleate, 25 x 8-10 /x, smooth. Its closest affinities are 
with Midotis macrotis. 
Cenangium chrysopxasum, Cooke. 
Scattered, sessile, cups at first orbicular, hemispherical, then 
flattened, contorted when dry, tough, externally olive, furfuraceous, 
margin distinct, a little paler, incurved when dry. Disc concave, 
nearly plane, sulphur yellow. Asci cylindricaily clavate, sporidia 
eight, narrowly ellipsoid, hyaline 6-8 x 2 /x, paraphyses filiform. 
On naked wood. India. 
Cups 2-3 m.m. diam. 
Cenangium chlorascens, Schwein., N. A. F., No. 873. 
Cups rather large, 2-4 m.m., gregarious, contorted wheu dry, 
sessile or shortly stipitate, externally fibrously floccose, in a dry 
state black or very dark brown, but when moist aeruginous green, 
disc greenish or yellowish green, at length powdery. Asci clavate, 
sporidia not seen. 
