FUNGI. 
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Orbilia Scotica, Mass. 
Gregarious, at first subglobose and closed, then expanding and 
becoming almost plane, with a slight central depression, margin 
entire, glabrous, thin, almost translucent when moist, irregularly 
contracted when dry, deep rose-red, sessile, and attached by a 
central point, up to J m.m. across ; excipulum parenchymatous, 
cells irregularly polygonal, 5-7 n diameter; hypothecium tinged 
red ; asci clavate, apex rounded, base slender and usually crooked, 
8-spored ; spores irregularly 2-seriate above, 1-seriate below, 
hyaline, continuous, elliptic-oblong, ends obtuse, 4x1 /x; para- 
physes about 1 /x thick, tips subglobose. 
On rotten wood. Aboyne, N.B. 
The type specimen is in Herb. Berk., Kew, under the name of 
Peziza vinosa (=Calloria vinosa ), from which it differs in the 
very much smaller, differently shaped spores, although super- 
ficially the two species closely resemble each other. 
Peziza reticulata, Grev. 
A batch of this rare and beautiful species has been received from 
Mr. E. W. Swanton, Wincanton, Somerset. The largest specimen 
measured five inches across, hymenium very much waved and con- 
torted, coarsely nodulose and reticulated, brittle ; hypothecium 
and excipulum composed entirely of densely interwoven, hyaline, 
septate hyphae, 5-7 /x thick. Smell very slight. 
Revised Descriptions of Type Specimens in Kew Herbarium. 
By G. Massee. 
In endeavouring to stereotype certain species that have been 
more or less inadequately defined in the first instance, it has been 
considered advisable to retain the name under which the species 
was first described ; later ideas as to the position of the species 
will be gathered from the synonyms appended : — 
Peziza cxuenta, Schw ., Syn. Fung. Amer. Bor., No. 943, p. 177 
( 1834 ). 
Gregarious, sometimes confluent, sessile, fixed by a point, at 
first closed, then becoming widely open, margin often wavy, slightly 
raised ; up to 1 m.m. across ; substance soft and thin ; disc 
slightly concave, crimson or orange-red, externally paler, the 
margin and for a short distance below furnished with small pro- 
jecting tufts of clavate or obtuse hyphas, 25-35x5-6 /x ; these 
tufts are usually agglutinated together by amorphous, honey- 
coloured lumps ; cells of cortex polygonal, 7-9 /x, near the margin ; 
asci small, narrowly clavate, pedicel long, slender, crooked, 
8-spored; spores irregularly 1-seriate, or sometimes 2-seriate 
above, hyaline, continuous, cylindric-oblong, ends obtuse, 4-5 X 
1*5 /x; paraphyses hyaline, slender, clavate or lanceolate at the tips. 
