PEZIZA. 



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This species was for many years included as British 

 on the authority of Dickson, but a specimen now exists 

 in the herbarium of the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, figured by 

 Dr. Cooke in " Mycogr." 



Name Mapulum, a little turnip ; from the shape, 

 especially of the stem. 



SUBGENUS III. OTIDEA. Pers. 



Cup subsessile, externally pruinose, diniidiately elon- 

 gated, or obliquely contorted, becoming incised on the 

 one side. (Plate III. fig. 13.) 



Name uriov, a little ear ; shaped like an ear. 



A. Sporidia elliptic, asperate 



B. Sporidia elliptic, smooth 



ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 



. . species 11 

 12-16 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Cups veined beneath 



Cups even beneath 



Paraphyses bent at the apices . . 



Paraphyses erect and branched 



Paraphyses erect and unbranrhod 

 9 /Sporidia rough 



' \Sporidia smooth . . 

 o /Cups rosy orange . . 

 ' ' (Cups reddish flesh-colour 



phleboplwrn. 



1 



leporina. 



apopliysata. 



2 



pleurota. 



3 



onotica. 



auricularia. 



A. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC, ASPERATE. 



11. Peziza pleurota. Phil. 



Cup sessile, expanded, nearly cochleate, umber-brown 

 paler externally, elongated on one side ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, asperate, 15 x 8/u; paraphyses linear 

 septate, apices clavate, brown. (Plate III., fig. 13.) 



Peziza pleurota Phil, in Cooke's " Mycogr.," fig. 351. 



On cow-dung. Autumn. 



Cup 1J inch wide, elongated on one side, divided 

 nearly to the base on the shorter side ; sporidia rough, 

 with a central nucleus. 



Name irXsvpov, a side, ovc, an ear. 



Near Shrewsbury ! 



