PEZIZA. 47 



cyclinclrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, minutely asperate, 

 15 x 8fi ; paraphyses filiform. 



On the earth. Spring. 



This has somewhat the aspect of Peziza firma in an 

 old stage of growth. The cup is lobed, undulate, de- 

 curved at the margin ; the disc is umbilicate, radiately 

 wrinkled, 8 lines broad across the widest part ; the 

 under side of the cup is smoky brown, minutely warted, 

 wrinkled longitudinally near its junction with the stem, 

 which tapers towards the base, and is 5 lines high and 

 about 1 line thick near the middle. 



Name TrtVaXov, a petal, flSoc, likeness ; from the 

 lobed margin. 



East Bergholt, Suffolk ! in the herbarium of the 

 Rev. M. J. Berkeley, February 2, 1852. 



(6) Sporidia elliptic, smooth. 



5. Peziza cupidaris. Linn. 



Cup globose-campanulate, thin ; hymenium fawn- 

 coloured or pallid, externally farinose ; margin crenate ; 

 stem slender, erect, sometimes rooting or nearly obsolete ; 

 asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 1 to 2-guttulate, 

 smooth, 18 X 10// ; paraphyses filiform, clavate apices. 

 (Plate III, fig. 12.) 



Peziza cupidaris Linn., " Suec.," No. 1273 ; Fries, 

 "Sys. Myco.," ii. 64; Pers., " Obs.," ii. t. 4, f. 6, 7; Vaill, 

 " Bot.," t. ii. f. 173 ; Karst., " Myco. Fenn," p. 42 ; Weinm., 

 " Hym," p. 423 ; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 189 ; Berk, " Outl.," 

 365, t. i. f. 2; Price, f. 79; Cooke, "Handbk.," 1990; 

 "Mycogr," t. 286; Pat, p. 71, f. 165 (?). Aleuria 

 cupidaris Gill, " Champ," p. 39, c. i. Peziza crenata 

 Bull, t. 396, f. 3. Peziza vulcanalis Peck, in Haydn's 

 " Geol. Report," 1872. Pustularia cupularis FckJ, 

 " Symb. Myco," p. 328. 



Exs. Rehm, "Asco.," 8; Fckl, " F. Rh," 1878: 

 Phil, "Elv. Brit," 155. 



On the earth in damp places. Spring and autumn. 



Sometimes yellowish ; stem J of an inch high, -J of 



