64 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Badminton (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Menmuir, N.B. 

 (Rev. M. L. Anderson). Moccas, Herefordshire ! Castle 

 Rising ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Warwick ! (Mr. Spencer 

 Percival). 



Var. flavida. Phil. 



This differs from the type species in being less fur- 

 furaceous externally, a brighter colour (decidedly yellow), 

 not pallid-fuliginous, and having sporidia rather longer 

 (19 x fy). 



On decayed wood. 



Name Flavus, light yellowish. 



Moccas, Herefordshire ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright) 



29. Peziza linteicola. Phil, and Plow. 



Cup sessile, crespitose, very fragile, cochleate or 

 entire, fulvous ; externally farinose, hoary; margin crenate; 

 asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, eguttulate, smooth, 

 12 15 X 8 10,u; paraphyses linear, septate, clavate at 

 the aj i ^es. 



On damp rotting linen cloth. 



Cup J to | of an inch broad ; sometimes divided to 

 the base on one side, the edges of the division involute, 

 at others entire, cupulate, arising from white creeping 

 mycelium ; sporidia vary much in size, and are shortly 

 elliptical, approaching globose. The apices of the para- 

 physes are clavate or pear-shaped, with one or two large 

 elliptic transparent nuclei devoid of granules. The cells 

 forming the exterior of the cup are rather small (from 

 10 20^ in diameter). 



Name Linteum, linen, and colo, to inhabit ; growing 

 on linen. 



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



SUBGENUS Y. DlSCINA. 



Cup large, sessile, or substipitate, between waxy and 

 fleshy, flattened or reflexed, entire or lobed, and some- 

 what waved. (Plate III. fig. 15.) 



Name e^V/coe, a round plate. 



