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crenate, ■whitish, then brownish, externally mealy (2-7 c.tn. broad). 
Asci cylindrical ; sporidia ellipsoid, even, hyaline, 20-22 x 12- 
13 p. 
On dung, soil, etc. Victoria. 
b. Geoscypha. Cups smaller , cupulate. 
1374. Feziza (Geoscypha) Saccardiana. Cooke Myco. f 
302. Sacc. Syll. 335. 
Sessile. Cups fleshy, fragile, concave, at length repand, umbili- 
cate, flesh-red (1 c.m. diam.) ; margin often torn. Asci cylin- 
drical, 150 x 14 p ; sporidia elliptic, rough, 16-18 X 9-11 /u. ; para- 
physes clavate above, brown. 
On moist soil. Victoria. 
1375. Peziza (Geoscypha) brunneo-atra. Desm. Cooke 
Myco. f. 78. Sacc. Syll. 341. 
Cups sessile, solitary, nearly plane, entire, fleshy, fragile, 
smooth, dark brown (1 c.m. broad). Asci cylindrical ; sporidia 
ovoid, subhyaline, granulate and minutely rough, nearly hyaline, 
20 X 10 p\ paraphyses clavulate. 
On naked soil. Victoria. 
c. Phasopezia. Sporidia coloured. 
1376. Feziza (Phaeopezia) apicnlata. Cooke Myco. f. 79. 
=Phteopezia apiculata. Sacc. Syll. 1966. Ilumaria Thozetii. 
Berk, (immature). 
Cups sessile, scutellate (2-6 m.m. diam.), fleshy, rather tough, 
black, even, smooth ; disc concave, margin entire. Asci cylin- 
drical, attenuated downwards, rather truncate at the apex, 200 x 
18 p, paraphyses filiform, septate, brownish at the tips. Sporidia 
oblong- ellipsoid, shortly mucronate at each end, 20-25x10-11 p, 
brown, the mucros at length coloured. 
On bark. Victoria. 
Genus 13. OTIDEA. Pers. 
Fungi fleshy, or rather tough, subsessile, dimidiate, or cut down, 
with one side elongated. Sporidia ellipsoid or oblong, hyaline. 
1377. Otidea darjeelensis. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1851, 202. 
Cooke Myco.f. 215. 
Cups expanded, somewhat cochleate, usually elongated on one 
side (2 in. or more broad), umber, pallid externally. Asci cylin- 
drical ; sporidia elliptical, roughly punctate (15x8//,); paraphyses 
linear. 
On the ground. Victoria. 
1378. Otidea hirneoloides. Berk. Sacc.= Peziza (Otidea) 
hirneoloides. Berk. Austr. 219. Cooke Myco. t. 56,/. 220. 
Sacc. Syll. 358. 
Sessile or very shortly stipitate, red, white beneath (3-4 c.m. 
broad), hymonium even ; sporidia cymbiform, slightly curved, 20- 
22 x 8 p ; paraphyses clavulate. 
On rotten wood. Victoria. Queensland. (Fig. 147.) 
