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•disc crimson ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia ellipsoid, even, hyaline, 
12 x 6 p. 
On the ground. S. Australia. 
Sarcoscypha Colensoi. B. Sacc. Syll. 633. 
The same as Peziza ( Tarzetta ) aluticolor. Ante No. 1368. 
1402 . Sarcoscypha rhenana. Fckl. Sacc. Syll. 630.=Sar- 
coscypha splendens. Quelet Jura 388. Cooke Myco. t 112 
f. 400. 
Cups easspitose, united in a thick stem, whitish tomentose (3-4 
c.m. high, attenuated), subglobose, closed, at length open, concave, 
inflexed at the margin (2-3 c.m.), externally mealy-tomentose, disc 
orange; asci stipitate, elongated (346 x 16 p) ; sporidia oblong- 
ovate, 1, rarely 2 guttulate, hyaline, 20-23 x 9-11 p, epispore 
reticulated and rough, paraphyses filiform, hamate, orange. 
On naked soil. W. Australia. (Fig. 152.) 
b. Macropodia. Disc brownish. 
1403 . Sarcoscypha bulbosa. 3edw. Muse. t. x.,f o. Cooke 
Myco. t. 48,/! 189.=Macropodia bulbosa. Sacc. Syll. 638. 
Cups hemispherical, turning cinereous, minutely squamulose, 
disc brown (1-2^ c.m. broad) ; stem firm, squamulose, tuberous at 
the base (12 X 2 m.m.) ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia globosely 
ellipsoid, 13-15 x 10-11 p, paraphyses a little clavate. 
On naked soil. Victoria. 
c. Plectania. Stem attached by rooting black hairs. 
1404 . Sarcoscypha (Plectania) melastoma. Fckl. Synd. 
Sacc. Syll. 657.=Peziza (ithizopodella) melastoma. Sow. 
Cooke Myco. f. 103. 
Fleshy, disc urceolate, black, externally clad with orange, red- 
dish granular flocci (2-4 c.m.) ; stem short, attached at the base 
by dense rooting black hairs ; asci cylindrical, 130-140 x 15 p ; 
sporidia oblong-ellipsoid, 22-25 x 9-10 p, paraphyses filiform. 
On old branches. Queensland. 
Genus 19. TRICHOSCYPHA. Cooke. 
Fungi rather fleshy, cup-shaped, stipitate, externally, or chiefly 
at the margin, furnished with long, rigid, compound hairs ; sporidia 
continuous, hyaline. 
1405 . Trichoscypha Hindsii. Berk. Fungi t. 15. Cooke 
Myco. f. 200. Sacc. Syll. 652. 
Bright red, cyathiform, externally delicately pruinose with tawny 
yellow, (2 c.m.) margin squamosely fimbriate ; stem even, 
attenuated downwards; asci linear, obtuse; sporidia ellipsoid' 
biguttulate, 20-22 x 12 p. 
On rotten wood. Queensland. New Ireland. (Fig. 153.) 
