5(3 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



2 (Cups large, cajspitose, externally pruinose 

 ' \Cups small, solitary, externally smooth 

 Hymenium orange-red ; cup sessile 

 Hymenium bright yellow ; cup substipitate 

 . jSporidia rough 

 ' \Sporidia smooth 

 JHymenium alutaceous, paraphyses linear 



. . aurantia. 



luteo-niteus. 



leuculeitta. 

 \i\r.flavida. 

 . . 5 

 .. 6 



alutacea. 



' I Hymenium dark umber-brown paraphyses linear . . badia. 



Hymenium pale ochraceous ; paraphyses linear, forked ochracta. 

 Hymenium umber-brown ; paraphyses linear, forked 



or branched . . . . . . . . . . . . cochleata. 



Hymenium umber ; paraphyses clavate . . 7 



Hymenium pale ochraceous, sessile ; on linen cloth. . linteicola. 



Hymenium pale ochraceous, substipitate ; on wood . . micropus. 

 ' Hymenium brownish yellow, with a shade of red ; on 



wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . isabellina. 



A. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC ASPERATE. 



17. Peziza aurantia. (Ed. 



Cup subsessile, irregular, oblique ; hymenium orange, 

 externally somewhat pruinose, whitish ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, biguttulate, asperate, 16 X S/UL ; para- 

 physes clavate at the summits, full of orange granules 

 (Plate III. fig. 14.) 



Peziza aurantia " Flo. Dan," t. 657, f. 2 ; Pers, 

 " Obs," 2, p. 76 ; Nees, " Sys," f. 279 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco," 

 ii. 49; "Eng. Flo," v. p. 187; Huss, i. t. 37; Berk, 

 "Outl," p. 363; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 1975; "Brit. 

 Fung," t. 1 ; Price, f. 42 ; Weberb, t. 1, f. 1, t. 2, f. 3 ; 

 Gonn. and Rabh, t. 1, f. 3 ; "Flo. Boruss," t. 384; Seer, 

 "Mycogr," iii. 294; Karst, "Myco. Fenn," 43; Weinm. 

 p. 414; Pat, p. 123, f. 278. Peziza aurantiaca Harzer. 

 t. 72, B. Peziza cochleata Batsch, f. 157. Peziza, 

 coccineaSchseff., " Icon," t. 148 ; Bull, " Champ," t. 474; 

 Sow, "Fung," t. 78. Helvetia coccinea Bolt., t. 100. 

 Peziza dichroa Holms, " Ot," ii. t. 7. Aleuria aurantia 

 Fckl, "Symb. Myco," 325; Sacc, "Myco. Ven. Sp," 

 167; Gill, " Champ," p. 41, c. i. 



Exs. Fckl, "F. Rh," 1228; Desm, "Crypt. Fr," i. 

 521 ; Karst, " Fung. Fenn," 142 ; Rabh, " Herb. Myco," i. 

 523 ; Phil, " Elv. Brit," 12 ; Ellis, " N. A. Fungi'," 836 ; 

 Roumg., " Fung. Gal," 2769. 



