52 BIIITISH D1SCOMYCETES. 



B. SrORIDIA ELLIPTIC, SMOOTH. 



12. Peziza onotica. Pers. 



Cup sulist.ipit.ite, elongated on one side, ear-shaped, 

 xtcrnnlly im-jily; hymenium rosy or orange; base at 

 length rugose; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 smooth, 1 to 2-guttulate, 14 x 8p; paraphyses thickened 

 at the summits. 



Peziza onotica Pers. "Syn. Fung.," p. 637; Fries, 

 "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 48; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 187; Berk., 

 " Out!.," p. 363 ; Oooke, " Handbk.," No. 1974 ; " Mycogr./' 

 f. 210; Karst, "Myco. Fenn.," p. 41; Ditm. in Sturm., 

 "Flo.," iii. t. 16 ; Sv., "Bot.," t. 486, f. 1 ; Weberb., t. 1, 

 f. 6 ; Gonn. and Rabh., t. 2, f. 1 ; " Flo. Boruss," t. 396 ; 

 Weinm., p. 414; Cooke, "Mycogr.," fig. 210. Peziza 

 liporina Sow., "Fung.," t. 79. Peziza rosea Schum., 

 " Saell." p. 416. Peziza caligata'Nyl., "Fez. Fenn.," p. 8. 

 Peziza unicisa Peck, " Reports of N. Y. St. Mus." 

 Otidea onotica Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," 329. Peziza 

 ochracea Karst., "Mon. Fez.," p. 110. Aleuria onotica 

 Gill., "Champ.," p. 40, c. i. 



Exs. Fckl., "F. Rh.," 1232; Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," 

 ii. 36-5 ; Rabh., " Fung. Eur.," 215 ; Winter, " Fungi Eur.," 

 2313. 



On the ground amongst leaves, in woods. Summer 

 and autumn. 



Cup 1 to 3 inches high and 1 to 2J inches broad, 

 most variable in form, sometimes nearly equal-sided and 

 entire, but generally elongated on one side ; exterior pale 

 fulvous ; disc pale orange. 



The species with which it is most easily confounded 

 is Peziza leporina, from which it is always to be dis- 

 tinguished by the colour of the disc and the straight 

 paraphyses. 



Name ovoe, an ass; like the ear of an ass. 



Clopthill Bedford (Rev. C. Abbott). Sir Wm. 

 Jenningham's plantation, Norwich (Sowerby). Dorking; 

 Lax ton, Northamptonshire ; Lea, King's Cliffe (Rev. M. 

 J. Berkeley). Suffolk (D. Stock). Near Bristol (Herb., 



