PEZIZA. 91 



Epispore smooth, 

 (a) Hymenium, some shade of red. 



70. Peziza mzcrocystis. Cooke. 



Cups sessile, gregarious or scattered, cup-shaped, at 

 length applanate ; hymenium concave, orange-red ; margin 

 entire, elevated ; externally brown, glabrous, or slightly 

 granulose ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, oblongo-elliptic, 

 biguttulate, smooth, 20 X 9/x ; paraphyses clavate apices, 

 filled with orange granules. 



Peziza macrocystis Cooke in "Mycogr.," fig. 63. 

 Peziza subhirsuta, var. macrocystis Cooke in " Gre- 

 villea" i. 129. 



Exs. Phil., "Elv. Brit," 59; Cooke, "Fung. Brit," 

 ed. ii. 651. 



On burnt ground. Autumn. 



Cup 1 to 2 lines broad. 



The external cells of the cup are very large. It is 

 otherwise very near P. subhirsuta. 



Name //a/cpoc, large, KUOT<C, a bladder ; from the 

 large cells of the receptacle. 



Ercall Hill, Wellington, Salop ! 



71. Peziza leucoloma. Hedw. 



Cups sessile, scattered, concave, then plane, red ; margin 

 minutely fimbriate with W 7 hite flocci ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, biguttulate, smooth, 18 20 X 9 10/u ; 

 paraphyses clavate at the apices. 



Peziza leucoloma Hedw., " Mus. Frond.," t. 4, fig. A ; 

 Rebent., p. 386 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. 71 ; " Eng. Flo.," 

 v. p. 191 ; B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1156*, t. 

 3, f. 16, No. 768 ; Cooke, " Handbk," 2000 ; " Grevillea," 

 iii. fig. 72 ; " Mycogr./' fig. 28. Leucoloma Hediuigii- 

 Fckl., "Symb. Myco./' 317. Aleuria leucoloma Gill., 

 " Champ./' p. 56. 



Exs. Fckl., " F. Rh," 1219. 



On the ground amongst moss. Autumn. 



Cup 1 to 1J- lines broad. 



