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PUNGI. 
snow-white, margin at first incurved, soon quite erect, entire ; ex- 
ternally minutely granular, due to the presence of a deep coating 
of crystals of oxalate of lime, otherwise glabrous, |-f m.m. across ; 
excipulum composed of parallel, sometimes branched, rows of 
hyaline, septate hypha?, 6-8 p thick, which run from the base to the 
margin ; asci cylindric clavate, pedicel short and stout, 8-spored ; 
spores irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, smooth, continuous, cylindrical, 
ends obtuse, straight or very slightly curved, 4-5 x 1*5-2 p ; para- 
physes very slender, about 1 \ p thick, tips not thickened. 
Tapesia epitephra , Sacc. Syll., vm., No. 1573. 
On the under surface of dead leaves. 
The interwoven, brown, curled hairs mentioned by Berkeley be- 
long to the leaf, and do not represent a subiculum as interpreted 
by Saccardo, who has consequently placed the fungus in the genus 
Tapesia . 
A very beautiful little species, does not change colour in the 
least, nor yet becomes contracted during drying, but remains quite 
open and erect, probably due to the external coating of particles of 
lime, which give an amount of rigidity the contraction of the cup is 
unable to overcome. 
Type specimen examined. 
Feziza funerata, Cooke , Grev. } VI., p. 142 (1878); Cke ., Mycogr ., fig 
380 ; Sacc. Syll., vm., No. 306. 
Ascophore at first subglobose and closed, then expanding and 
becoming deeply cup-shaped with the margin irregularly split and 
spreading ; flesh thin, brittle ; disc pale brown or with an ashy 
tinge, externally brown, downy, and densely covered with particles 
of sand, 1-2 c.m. high and broad; excipulum parenchymatous, 
cortical cells polygonal, 20-25 p diameter, giving off numerous 
brownish, septate liyphm ; the base of the ascophore is sometimes 
rounded, at others contracted into a very short, stem-like base ; 
asci cylindrical, apex truncate, 8-spored ; spores 1-seriate, slightly 
oblique, continuous, hyaline, smooth, broadly elliptical, ends obtuse, 
17-20 x 8-10 /x ; paraphyses septate, about 4 p thick at the 
slightly thickened tip. 
Immersed among sand. Gains ville, Florida. (Ravenel, Dec., 
1877.) 
Bavenel, in a note accompanying the specimens, says the plants 
are at first globose, closed, and completely buried in the sand, then 
the cups open and the margin becomes split and spreads flat on the 
sand, the cups remaining buried. 
Specimens in every detail identical with the above have been 
received at Kew from sandy ground near Clarendon, N. S. Wales. 
Feziza eaxoleuca, B. $ Br ., Fung. Ceylon , No. 943, in Journ. Linn. 
Soc ., Vol. XIV., p. 105 (1875). 
Ascophores usually densely gregarious, sessile or with a very 
short stem-like base ; at first almost clavate or subglobose, then 
expanding, the disc becoming plane or slightly convex, fleshy ; 
snow-white, the disc having a tinge of yellow when dry, externally 
