Seaver: Some Tropical Cup-Fungi 
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Type locality: Peradeniya, Ceylon. 
Distribution : Philippine Islands, Ceylon, and Bonin Islands, 
Illustrations: Cooke, Mycogr. pi. 57, /. 201; Jour. Linn. Soc. 
31 : pi. 16, f. 26. 
This species has not been found in the West Indies so far as 
known but it is not unlikely that it will be found to occur there. 
It is closely related to the other members of the genus but can be 
distinguished by the form of the cups and by differences in the 
spores. 
Cookeina Colensoi tBerk.) 
Pezisa Colensoi Berk, in Hooker’s FI. New Zealand 2 : 200. 1855. 
Peziza aluticolor Berk. Proc. Linn. Soc. 13: 176. 1873. 
Sarcoscypba Colensoi Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 157. 1889. 
Geopyxis aluticolor Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 64. 1889. 
Plants stipitate or substipitate, shallow cup-shaped, 1-1.5 cm. 
in diameter and about 5 mm. deep, dried plants pale-yellow 
(probably much brighter when fresh) marked with concentric 
rings about the outer margin, externally covered with loose cells 
which sometimes approach rudimentary hairs but with no well- 
developed hairs, wrinkled when dry especially near the base 
of the cup ; stem very short or almost wanting, sometimes not 
more than i mm. in length, never long as in related species ; asci 
cylindric, about 400-475 X 20 /x, gradually tapering below; 
spores I -seriate or with the ends slightly overlapping, fusoid with 
the ends quite strongly narrowed, with one or two large oil-drops 
and granular within, striations consisting of several broad, longi- 
tudinal bands extending the length of the spore, 30-40X12- 
I5i(x; paraphyses filiform, scarcely enlarged above. 
On wood and bark. 
Type locality: New Zealand. 
Distribution : West Indies, New Zealand, Australia, and 
Africa. 
Illustrations: Hooker’s FI. New Zealand 2: pi. 105, f. 5; 
Cooke, Mycogr. pi. 50, /. ig8. 
The plants of this species examined are almost sessile although 
the species is often described and illustrated with a stem several 
mm. long. The stem is probably variable as in other species of 
the genus although it has never been found to attain the length 
characteristic of other species of the genus. With the exception 
