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of the shorter stem, and absence of hairs the cups of this species 
might easily be mistaken for a subsessile form of Cookeina sul- 
cipes. The spores however are quite different. Geo pyxis Mdld- 
eriana P. Henn.- does not seem to differ materially from this 
species so far as can be judged from the published description. 
Phillipsia Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. i8: 388. 1881 
Plants attached to the substratum by a very broad base which 
is often extended into a rather long, thick stem, hymenium bright- 
colored ; substance tough, not shrinking much in drying ; asci 8- 
spored ; spores usually striate, subhyaline ; paraphyses present, 
very slender. 
Type species, Pcziza domingensis Berk. 
Phillipsi.\ domingensis Berk. 
Peziza domingensis Berk. Ann. iMag. Nat. Hist. II. 9: 201. 1852. 
Peziza crispata Berk. & Br. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 367. 1869. 
Helotium pnrpnratum Kalchbr. in de Thiimen, Myc. univ. 1614. 
1880. 
fPeziza Harmoge Berk. & Br. Jour. Linn. Soc. 14: 104. 1875. 
Phillipsia kennesina Kalchbr. & Cooke, Grevillea 9; 25. 1880. 
Phillipsia subpurpurea Berk. & Br. Jour. Linn. Soc. 14: 104. 
1875- 
Lachnea crispata Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 682. 1889. 
Otidea domingensis Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 97. 1889. 
Plants shallow cup-shaped, regular or occasionally unequal- 
sided, attached by a broad base, sometimes nearly as broad as the 
cup, base often extended into a thickened stem i cm. long, hy- 
menium dark reddish-purple, externally much paler, nearly white 
or with a pinkish tinge or fading to a dirty-yellow in dried plants, 
more or less downy especially near the base ; substance tough and 
corky in dried plants, hymenium becoming pitted as a result of 
unequal shrinkage in drying, often giving it the appearance of a 
resupinate polypore ; asci cylindric, about 300-360 X 1 5-20 ju, 
gradually tapering below into a long stem-like base; spores i-se- 
riate or with the ends slightly overlapping, ellipsoid, ends very 
blunt or more rarely abruptly narrowed, unequal-sided, striated, 
striations consisting of a few broad bands extending the length 
■ Hedwigia 41: 30. 1902. 
