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Peziza polytrichi, Schum ., Emim. plant. Saellandice , Sept. et. Or., p.423 
(1803). 
Ascophore turbinate and closed when young, contracted below 
Peziza polytrichi, Schum. 1, small specimens, natural sire; 2, specimen, 
x 5 ; 3, section of portion of excipulum, x 400 ; 4, ascus with spores and 
paraphyses, x 400 ; fig. 5, spores in various stages of development, x 800. 
into a short stem-like base, becoming broadly open but not plane 
with age, rather fleshy, not very brittle, 4-8 m.m. across; disc 
deep orange, externally whitish, distinctly downy, the down form- 
ing a delicately fringed margin composed of hyaline, septate, 
cylindrical, thin-walled hyphte that are sometimes branched, 80- 
100x6-7 p, the hypbae are often arranged in little bundles ; ex- 
cipulum parenchymatous, cells elongated in the direction from 
base to margin; cortical cells irregularly polygonal, 12-18 p, 
giving origin to the external hairs ; asci cylindrical, apex slightly 
truncate, base rather suddenly narrowed into the pedicel, 8- spored ; 
spores obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, ends acute, with 
one large median oil-globule, for some time quite smooth, finally 
minutely warted, 24-28 x 11-13 p ; paraphyses septate, slender 
below, becoming slightly clavate at the tip, which contains orange 
granules. 
