PEZIZA. 55 



16. Peziza phlebophora. B. and Br. 



Cup poculiforin, oblique, substipitate, finely pul- 

 verulent, venoso-costate at the base ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 10 12 X 6/i ; paraphyses 

 sparse, linear. 



Peziza phlebophora B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," 

 No. 1153, t. 3, f. 9; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 1970; 

 " Mycogr.," fig. 217. 



On clay bank. 



Cup J to 1^ inch broad, often rather oblique, yellow 

 or brownish, springing from a very short stem-like base, 

 from which branched ribs are given off, ending in little 

 pits ; hymenium often venose. 



Name (f>\ty, a vein, ^fy>w, to carry ; from the veined 

 base. 



King's Cliffe (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Brislington 

 (Mr. C. E. Broome). Coed Coch, North Wales (Rev. M. 

 J. Berkeley). Hill Plantation, near Carlisle ! (Dr. 

 Carlyle). 



SUBGEXUS IV. COCHLEARIA. Cooke. 



Cup sessile, externally pruinose, flexuose, ceespitose- 

 contorted. (Plate III. fig. 14.) 



Although the cups in this subgenus are sometimes 

 laterally divided, they are rarely elongated on the one 

 side, as in Otidea. 



Name Cochlea, the shell of a snail. 



ARRANGEMENT OP THE SPECIES. 



A. Sporidia elliptic, asperate . . . . . . species 17-19 



B. Sporidia elliptic, smooth . . . . . . 20-29 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 

 Hvmenium faint purple, changing to pale buff Adx. 



\ 



Hymenium olivaceous umber 



Hymenium orange red ; sporidia rough 



Hymenium orange red or bright yellow ; sporidi 



smooth 



Hymenium some shade of brown 

 Paraphyses globose at the apices 

 araphyses clavate at the apices 



(Tan 

 ' \Pan 



grandis. 



3 

 4 



fibrillosa. 

 2 



