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the ascophore furnished with numerous hyaline, aseptate hyphce 
about 3 p thick, which attach the fungus to the substratum ; asci 
cylindrical, apex rounded, base narrowed, 8-spored ; spores 
obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, smooth, elliptical, ends 
obtuse, 8-9 x 5 /x; paraphyses numerous, hyaline, septate, 
cylindrical, apex not thickened, about 2 /x thick, sometimes 
branched. 
Pezizella Cucurbita Sacc. Syll., Tin., No. 1187. 
On dry rind of squash (Cucurbita). Poughkeepsie, U.S.A. 
(Gerard). 
Authentic specimen from Gerard examined. 
When dry, contorted, somewhat horny, and disc dark purple- 
brown (Gerard). 
Feziza exasperata, Berk, ty Curt ., Grev ., Vol. m.,_p. 152,^. 55 (1875) 
Cooke , Mycogr ., fig. 21 (warts on the spores too numerous and too 
minute). 
Ascophore sessile, subglobose at first, then becoming almost 
plane, margin persistently more or less upraised or incurved, up to 
1 c.m. across ; deep crimson-lake or almost scarlet, disc slightly 
concave, margin even, externally covered with small warts ; 
excipulum composed of interwoven hyphse, passing into parenchyma 
at the cortex, cells polygonal, 10-16 /x diameter, growing out in 
groups to form the external warts ; asci cylindrical, apex rounded, 
base narrowed to a slender pedicel, 8-spored ; spores 1-seriate, 
hyaline, globose, rather distantly studded with minute, subglobose 
warts at maturity, 13-14 /x diameter ; paraphyses septate, gradu- 
ally becoming clavate upwards, the orange -red tip being 5-6 p 
broad. 
Barlcea exasperata , Sacc. Syll., vm., No. 420. 
On burnt ground. Alabama (Peters). 
Type specimen examined. 
Feziza epitricha, Berk., Hook Journ. Bot., Vol. il.,p. 10 (1843). 
Gregarious or crowded, subglobose and closed at first, then be- 
coming nearly plane, sometimes slightly marginate, fleshy, 1-4 
m.m. across, entirely dark red; externally smooth except near the 
base, where the large cortical cells give origin to numerous stout, 
septate, brownish hyphse that fix the fungus to the substratum ; 
excipulum of densely wefted hyaline hyphse, which pass into a 
coloured parenchymatous cortex, the external cells 15-25 p 
diameter ; asci cylindrical, rather shortly stipitate, 8-spored ; 
spores obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, smooth, continuous, elliptical, 
ends obtuse, 18-20 x 8 p ; paraphyses septate, apex broadly 
clavate and 6-8 p thick. 
Humana epitricha , Sacc. Syll,, vm., No. 460. 
On rotten wood. Uitcnhage, Cape of Good Hope. (Zoyher, 
No. 58, “ On putrified wood ; colour dark-red.”) 
Feziza epitephra, Berk., Flora Tasm.,p. 275 (1860). 
Gregarious on the under surface of dead leaves ; sessile, deeply 
cup-shaped, base slightly narrowed, substance thin and dry, entirely 
