PEZIZA. -15 



Name Acetabulum, vinegar cup; shaped like a cup. 



Sand Hutton, Yorkshire (Rev. M. Bud stone). King's 

 ClifFe, Northamptonshire ; Kingerswell, Devonshire (Rev. 

 M. J. Berkeley). Pitlochrie and Cluny, N.B. (D. 

 Thomson). Wiltshire (Mr. C. E. Broome). Hitchin 

 (Professor Henslow). White Notley (Mr. A. Irvine). 

 Ashton Court, Bristol (Mr. C. Bucknall). Framinghani 

 Earl ; Sprowston ; Castle Rising, Norfolk ! (Mr. C. B. 

 Plowright). General Cemetery, Shrewsbury ! near 

 Ludlow (Miss Price). 



2. Peziza insolita. Cooke. 



Stipitate, fleshy, fragile, whitish, clavate, then pyriform, 

 becoming cyathiform ; stem thick, attenuated below ; 

 hymeniuni ochery- white ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 elliptic, hyaline, 22 25 X 10 12^ ; paraphyses filiform, 

 short, septate. 



Peziza insolita Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 375. 



On decayed leaves amongst mould in a fig-house. 

 December. 



Cup 1 inch high, J an inch or more in diameter; 

 cells of cups 12 X 10/z; the paraphyses shorter than the 

 asci. A white mycelium runs amongst the leaves on 

 which it grows (Cooke). 



Name Insolita, unusual. 



Castle Gardens, N.B. (Rev. J. Stevenson). Kelvedon, 

 Essex (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



3. Peziza Percevali. Berk, and Cooke. 



Solitary ; cup at length expanded, somewhat pruinose. 

 the margin closely infiexed ; stem somewhat thick, sub- 

 attenuated below, with slender rooting fibrils ; asci 

 cla vato- cylindrical ; sporidia elliptic (?) ; paraphyses 

 thickened above, brownish. 



Peziza Percevali. Berk, and Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 

 192. Peziza ciborium Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. 59 (partly), 

 var. major; B. and Br. in "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1479; 

 " Grevillea," iii. p. 119. 



On the ground. 



