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elatina agrees so capitally that I can scarcely doubt the correctness 
of my opinion. 
3. After having received, through the goodness of Morthier, 
living specimens of Peziza pithy a, I have arrived at the opinion 
that this, in fact, is the true species of Persoon which Nees repre- 
sents. (“ Sys. der Pilze,” Tab. xxxviii, Fig. 287.) Neither is 
Peziza Leineri, Rabh. (“ Mycology Europ.,” Tab. v, Fig. 6 ; and 
“ Badische Kryptogamen,” 648) itself any other than P. pithya. 
It agrees in every particular with the above. 
4. In “ Albertini and Schweiniz,” Conspectus, p. 65, Tab. iv, Fig. 
6, is described and figured a Xyloma herbarum , which grows on 
Cerastium vulgatum and Potentilla norvegica, and, indeed, is found 
on the living, blossoming plant. This fungus is evidently identical 
with Peziza Cerastiorum , Wallr., and Peziza Dehnii, Rabh., re- 
spectively, with one of these two species, which may be easily per- 
ceived by the sporidia. Yet neither ol these can bear the name of 
Albertini and Schweintz, as there is already a Peziza herbarum , 
Pers. (“ Sjnop.,” p. 664.) It is only by a further division of the 
old genus, Peziza , that one of these species — the one on Potentilla 
is the best — can bear the specific name of “herbarum” (Albet 
Schwz). 
5. I might call the attention of mycologists to a Peziza which 
is, perhaps, not so rare as it would appear, but which I do not ever 
find described. I first received it about eight years ago, from 
Schulzer of Miiggenburg, as P. adusta , Schulzer. As Herr 
Schulzer had the goodness to communicate to me, it is indeed not 
yet described by him, but was published under the above name in 
the “ Verhandl. d. Zoor-Bot. Ges, zu Wien,” Band xvi. (1866), p. 
62. During the last winter, through the kindness of Herr Pro- 
fessor Caspary, I was allowed the use of a splendid collection 
of drawings from Nature, and descriptions of Discomycetes of 
Eastern Prussia. In this collection I found the drawing of a 
Peziza which I at once recognised as identical with Schulzer’ s P. 
adusta. 
There lie before me, both from Herr Professor Caspary and 
from Herr Schulzer, very excellent and sufficient descriptions that 
I shall make use of in my work. I give below only a preliminary 
diagnosis of the fungus in question, to elicyyb some further commu- 
nications from other mycologists upon it. 
Peziza adusta , Schulzer ( ad interim!), fortasse Synon : P. 
fusco-cana Alb et Schwein. (“ Conspect,” p. 312, Tab v, Fig. 2.) 
Cupula campanulaeformis, demum magis aperta, margine saepe re- 
voluto, inciso undulatoque, extus cinerio-fusca vel umbrina, pruinosa 
vel subtomentosa, intus obscurior, fere atra. Cupulae diam. 2-8 
centim. Stipes 1-5 centim. longus, sursum in cupulam dilatatus, 
plerumque subcompressus et parum sulcatus, cinereo-fuscus, basin 
saepe nigrofibrillosus. Asci longissime cylindracei, apice truncata et 
incrassata, basin versus attenuati, 8-spori, 400 bis 500 mik. longi, 
14-25 mikr. crassi. Sporae monostichae, oblongae, enucleatae, 
hyalinae, 22-33 mikr. long., 10-13 mikr. crassae. Paraphyses 
