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similar ; excipulum entirely composed of interwoven hyaline 
hyphse, 4-5 p thick, these run parallel and form a pseudo-paren- 
chymatous cortex ; asci clavate. 8-spored ; spores very long and 
slender, both ends rather pointed, hyaline, smooth, for a long time 
continuous and with granular contents, then 1-septate, and finally 
distinctly 3-septate, 30-35 x 3-3*5 p ; paraphyses numerous, 
cylindrical, tip not usually thickened, 3 p thick, agglutinated 
together. 
Erinella rhaphidospora, Sacc. Syll., vm., No. 2100. 
On rotten wood and bark. Venezuela. 
This species also occurs in Cuba, where it was collected by 
Wright, No. 364, in Herb. Berk. 
Type specimen, also Cuban specimen examined. 
Feziza lobata, Berlc Sf Curt., Fungi Cubenses, No. 663, in Linn. Soc. 
Journ., Vol. x., p. 365 (1869); Cooke , Mycogr.,jp. 155, fig. 265 (spores 
represented as being minutely warted). 
Scattered or gregarious, sessile and attached by a central point, 
at first closed, soon expanding and becoming almost or quite plane, 
margin usually more or less lobed and wavy, thin,|-l J c.m. across; 
disc often with a few raised, anastomosing wrinkles, rufous, 
externally paler, glabrous or nearly so ; excipulum very dense, 
consisting of interwoven hyphse, which pass into parenchyma to 
form the cortex, which is also dense and not much 
differentiated, external cells 8-12 p diameter ; asci cylindrical, 
apex obtuse, 8-spored ; spores globose, hyaline, permanently 
smooth (?), 1-seriate, 11-12 p diameter; paraphyses septate, 
gradually becoming clavate towards the tip. 
Peziza sarmentorum , var. geophila , B. & Br., Enumer. Fung., 
Ceylon, No. 921, in Journ. Linn. Soc., Vol. xiv., p. 102 (1875). 
Barlcea lobata, Sacc. Syll., vm., No. 446. 
Exs . — Fungi Cubenses Wrightiani, No. 663. 
On the ground. Cuba (Wright, No. 652); Ceylon (Thwaites, 
No. 1055). 
All the above quoted specimens examined. 
In Mycographia, Fig. 265, the spores of the present species are 
represented as being minutely verrucose. In all the specimens 
that I have had an opportunity of examining the spores are per- 
fectly smooth, often with minutley granular contents, which might 
possibly be mistaken for a verruculose surface. Nevertheless, 
remembering how rarely the ultimate condition of epispore mark- 
ing is observed in the case of certain species that are known to 
have ornamented spores, it will be well to leave the question open 
for the present. 
Peziza Cucuxbitse, Gerard, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, Vol. v.,p. 26 (1874). 
Scattered, globose when young, then expanding and becoming 
almost or quite plane, scutellate, margin entire, fleshy, up to 
1 m.m. across ; disc pale tan colour, externally paler, glabrous ; 
hypothecium and excipulum alike in structure, formed of very 
compactly interwoven, septate, hyaline hyphee, the basal portion of 
