70 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Hymenium violet-brown ; juice violet . . . . .. samosa. 



Hymeiiium wax-brown ; juice turning yellow , . succosa. 



36. Peziza succosa. Berk. 



Cap medium size, fleshy, sessile, hemispherical, pale 

 wax-brown ; externally paler, pruinose ; margin inflexed ; 

 juice bright yellow ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 biguttulate, asperate, 20 X 11 12/z ; paraphyses linear, 

 thickened upwards. (Plate IV. fig. 16.) 



Peziza succosa Berk., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 156, 

 t. 10, f. 5 ; " Outl.," p. 363 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 1972 ; 

 ' Mycogr," fig. 243 ; Kickx., " Crypt. Flan," j. 495 ; Pat., 

 72, f. 166. Aleuria succosa Gill., " Champ.," p. 45, c. i. 



Exs. Phil., "Elv. Brit," No. 10; Cooke, "Fung. 

 Brit," ed. ii. 650. 



On the naked ground in damp and shady woods. 

 Autumn. 



Cup 1 inch broad, subglobose, then hemispherical, 

 sometimes cochleate, but generally entire, when moist 

 transparent, pale brown ; exterior mealy or pruinose, 

 dirty white ; the juice is limpid and nearly colourless 

 when it issues from the wound, but soon changes to 

 yellow ; the sporidia are certainly rough when mature. 



Name Succus, juice. 



King's Cliffe and Apethorpe (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 

 Bristol (Mr. H. 0. Stephens). Do vard Rocks (Mr. 

 Spencer Perceval). Arkol Hill, Salop 1 Lilleshall, Salop ! 

 Craven Arms, Salop I 



37. Peziza saniosa. Schrad. 



Cup sessile, thick, fleshy, campanulate, regular, 

 purplish brown or dark violet ; externally pulverulent, 

 umber-brown or purplish -brown ; juice dark violet, 

 abundant ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, biguttulate, 

 smooth, 15 X 7*5/z; paraphyses linear. 



Peziza saniosa Schrad, "Bot. Jour," 1799, ii. p. 64; 

 Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. 65; Cooke, "Handbk," No. 1901 ; 

 Berk., " Mag. Zool. and Bot," No. 87, t. 7, f. 2 ; Phil, in 



