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so well in shape and substance that I consider them as 

 the same species" (Sowerby, I. c.). 



The original specimens, after the death of Sowerby, 

 came into the hands of the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, by 

 whose kind permission I was allowed to examine them. 



Name Murus, a wall ; from its habitat. 



B. STEM ROOTING. 



(a) Sporidia elliptic, smooth. 

 8. Peziza carbonaria. A. and S. 



Cup globose-carnpanulate, thin, fragile ; hymenium 

 reddish-ochrey, externally whitish, farinose ; margin 

 crenate; stem slender, variable in length ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 18 X 8/x; paraphyses filiform, 

 clavate apices. 



Peziza carbonaria A. and S., " Consp.," p. 314, t. 4, 

 f. 2 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. 64 ; B. and Br, " Ann. Nat. 

 Hist.," 1063, t. 15, f. 15 ; Nyl., " Fez. Fenn," p. 10 ; Karst., 

 "Myco. Fenn./' p. 42; Gonn. and Rabh., iii. t. 4, f. 4; 

 Cooke, "Handbk," No. 1989; "Mycogr," fig. 284. P. 

 cupularis, var. carbonaria Weinm., " Hyin," 424. 

 Aleuria carbonaria Gill, " Champ.," p. 39. 



Exs. Rabh., " Fung. Fur," 722 ; Rabh., " Myco. Eur.," 

 ii. 622 ; Karst., " Fung. Fenn," 456 ; Winter, " Fungi 

 Eur," 2512 ; Rehm, " Asco," 702. 



On burnt ground. Spring and autumn. 



Gregarious, 3 to 8 lines broad ; stem at times obsolete. 



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Distinguished from the preceding by its smaller size ; 



more highly coloured hymenium, which is almost ver- 

 million when young ; and its sporidia. 



Name Carbo, charcoal ; from its habitat. 



Ascot (Mr. C. E. Broome). Morton Bay! (Mr. J. 

 Baily). Whitclitfe, Ludlow ! Wrekin, Salop ! Attingham 

 Park, Salop ! 



9. Peziza ammophila. Dr. and M. 



Cup turbinate, fragile, thick ; hymenium brown, ex- 

 ternally pallid, dry ; margin splitting into triangular 



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