TEZIZA. 6S 



Damp wall of Inverleith House, Edinburgh ! (Miss 

 Ada Balfour, after whom it is named). Garden at Dalston, 

 London (herb, of Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



27. Peziza isabellina. Wor. Smith. 



Cup large, sessile, csespitose, fleshy, subglobose, in- 

 ternally smooth, brownish yellow, with a shade of red, 

 externally paler, subpruinose ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 

 8, elliptic, smooth, 14 X 80 ; paraphyses linear, clavate 

 summits. 



Peziza isabellina Worthington Smith in "Grevillea," 

 i. p. 136, t. 9; Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 241. 



On decayed coniferous wood. 



Cup 1 to 2 inches broad. 



Name From the French isabelle, dove-coloured, or, 

 as some say, the colour of dirty linen. 



King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



28. Peziza micropus. Pers. 



Cup substipitate, medium-sized, oblique, flexuous, 

 rather fragile, pallid-fuliginous, externally furfuraceo- 

 granulose ; stem short, rather stout ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 15 X 9// ; paraphyses linear, 

 slightly thickened at the summits. 



Peziza micropus Pers., " Syn. Fung.," 642 ; Pers., 

 "Icon, et Descr./'t. 8, f. 3 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. 54; 

 Berk., " Out!.," t. 22, f. 5 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 1983 ; 

 Weinm., " Hym," 418 ; Cooke, "Mycogr.," fig. 300 ; Pat., 

 p. 121, f. 273. Pustularia micropus Fckl., "Symb. 

 Myco./' 323. Aleuria micropus Gill., " Champ.," p. 204. 



On damp wood, beech, ash, and poplar, and decaying 

 carpet. Spring and Autumn. 



Cup J- to 1 inch broad, hemispherical, or sub-infun- 

 dibuliform ; mouth oblique ; margin furfuraceo-tomentose, 

 and the exterior granulated with large superficial 

 squamules ; stem 1J lines long, rather thick, or absent 

 altogether. 



Name piKpoz, small, TTOUC, a foot; from the short stem. 



Fineshade, Northamptonshire (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 



