6G BBITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



seini-pellucid, sometimes pallid near the base, at length 

 expanded, almost plane ; hymenium olive-brown ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 8, globose, smooth, 9 lO^t ; para- 

 physes filiform, gradually enlarged at the apices. 



Peziza leiocarpa Curr, " Linn. Trans," xxiv. p. 493, 

 t. 51, f. 4 and 8; B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1062, 

 t. xiv. f. 14; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 1985; "Mycogr.," 

 fig. 256 ; Pat, p. 70, fig. 163 (exclude sporidia and 

 paraphyses). Plicaria foveata FckL, " Symb. Myco," 

 p. 326 (?) 



On burnt ground. 



Cup 1 J to 3 inches broad ; hymenium at first pale, 

 then dark olive-brown. Resembling at first Peziza 

 pustulaia (Batsch). 



Name Xaoc, smooth, tcapirog, fruit ; from the smooth 

 sporidia. 



Ascot ! (Rev. G. H. Sawyer). 



B. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC, SMOOTH. 



32. Peziza repanda. Wahl. 



Cup solitary or csespitose, large, incised, and repand, 

 internally subrugose, brown ; externally farinose, whitish, 

 base elongated, rooting ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 elliptic, biguttulate, smooth, 18 20 x 10^; paraphyses 

 linear, sparse. 



Peziza repanda Wahl., " Tips.," p. 466 ; Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco," ii. 51; Grev, " Sc. Crypt. Flo.," t. 59; Berk, 

 "Eng. Flo.," v. 188; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 1978; 

 " Mycogr.," fig. 240; Weinm. ," Hym," p. 117. Aleuria 

 repanda Gill, " Champ," p. 43. 



On old trunks and on the ground. Autumn. 



Cup 1 to 4 ^inches broad ; cells of the exterior of the 

 cup very large. This is one of the species with which 

 many others have been confounded, so that it is very 

 difficult to quote synonyms with any degree of cer- 

 tainty. If regard be paid to the sporidia, great paucity 

 of paraphyses, and large external cells, there should 



