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FUNGI. 
besides which I do not wish to encroach on the domain of the 
rising sect who swear by books and swear at specimens. 
Peziza rutilans, fries, Syst. Myc Vol. 68 (1823). 
Ascophore sessile, attached by a very short central point, subglo- 
bose and closed 
at first, then ex- 
panding and be- 
coming quite 
plane, fleshy, 
margin entire, 
sometimes 
slightly raised, 
at others some- 
what drooping; 
£-1 c.m. across; 
disc orange-red 
or sometimes 
\j almost crimson, 
externally paler 
and below the 
margin very mi- 
nutely downy ; 
excipulum 
parenchyma- 
tous, cells ir- 
regularly poly- 
go nal, large, 
cortical cells 
12-16 fx dia- 
meter; asci 
cylindrical, nar- 
rowed at the 
base into a 
slender, often curved pedicel, 8-spored ; spores obliquely 1-seriate, 
hyaline, continuous, elliptical, ends blunt, often 2-guttulate, at 
first smooth, finally very minutely reticulated, 13-15x8-9 /a; 
paraphyses septate, slender, apex rather abruptly clavate, 6-8 /a 
thick, containing orange granules. 
Specimen named by Fries, and now in Kew Herbarium, 
examined. 
On the ground among moss, etc. 
Sometimes solitary, at others gregarious, fleshy, brittle. Fries 
placed P. rutilans in his tribe Humaria, of which he says, “ Cupula 
nec pruinosa, neque vere villosa,” Syst. Myc. n., p. 67, hence it is 
somewhat remarkable that it should have been confounded with 
the species called in this article P. polytrichia which is truly 
villose. 
Exsicc. Thiim., Fung. Austr., No. 521 (called Leucoloma 
rutilans , Fckl.). 
Peziza rutilans, Fr. 1, group of fungi, natural size ; 
2, sections, natural size; 3, section of excipulum; 4, 
ascus with spores and paraphyses ; 5, free spores in 
various stages of development; 6, spore showing struc- 
ture of epispore at maturity ; figs. 3-5, x 400 ; fig. 6, x 
800 (drawn from specimen named by Fries). 
