PEZIZA. 



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GENUS I PEZIZA. Dill (" Gen./' p. 74). 



Keceptacle marginate, cup-shaped, at first closed, 

 afterwards expanding ; epidermis thin, contiguous, gla- 

 brous, pruinose, or floccoso-furfuraceus, persistent, distinct; 

 asci large, distinct, fixed, enclosing 8 sporidia, which are 

 soon elastically ejected; paraphyses filiform, intermixed 

 with the asci. Cups adfixed by the centre, often stipitate, 

 freely unfolding, more or less concave, often becoming 

 plane ; hymenium smooth (not villous or pulveraceous), 

 differing in colour ; substance fleshy-menibranaceous, not 

 waxy or gelatinous. (Plate V. figs. 11-22). 



Name See p. 42. 



AKKANUKMKNT OF SUBGEXEUA. 



I. Acetdbula 

 II. Tarzetta 



III. Otidea 



IV. Cochlearia 

 V. Discina, 



VI. Galactin/'a 

 'VII. Pustular ia 

 VIII. Geoseypha 



IX. Huntaria 

 X. Pyntiiema 



.. 

 .. 





 

 



KilV TO THE SUBGTCXEKA. 



1. 



2. 

 3. 

 4. 

 5. 



6. 



7. 



Stipitate 



Sessile or snbstipitate . . 

 ("Stem stout 

 (Stem slender 



('Yielding a coloured fluid when wounded . 

 \Yielding a colourless fluid when wounded. 

 (Cups elongated on one side . . 

 \Cupa not elongated on one side 

 (Gups larye 



\Cups small, rarely exceeding o lines broad. 

 ( Turf uraceous or verrucose, entire 

 \Pruinose or farinose 



Flexuous, ciespito^e-contorted, sessile 



Plane or repand, sessile or substipitate 



Smaller, entire or lobed, sessile 

 jBase surrounded by a delicate white web . 

 \Basc without a white web round it . . 



1-3 



4-10 



11-16 



17--J1* 



30-35 



3J-37 



38-43 



-i-t-57 



.08-97 



'J8-104 



1 



'2 



Acetalmla. 



'I Kr:.' tta. 



Galactinia. 



3 



Otidea. 



4 



5 



/ 



Pustularia. 



6 



Cochlearia. 



Discina. 



Geoscypha. 



Pyronema. 



lluniaria. 



