PEZIZA. 93 



74. Peziza axillaris. Nees. 



Cup sessile, firm, fleshy, cupulate, orange, paler at 

 the base ; margin obtuse ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 elliptic, smooth, 12 X 5 Gfj. ; paraphyses linear, slightly 

 incrassated upwards, filled with red granules. 



Peziza axillaris Nees, "Sys.," p. 258, fig. 267; Fries, 

 a Sys. Myco," ii. 145; Pers, Myco. Eur," 514; Cooke, 

 "Mycogr," fig. 91. Leucoloma axillaris Fckl. } " Symb. 

 Myco," p. 318. 



Exs. Fckl, "F. Eh.," 1176. 



On mosses. Spring. 



Cup 1 to 2 mm. broad. 



Name Axilla, the armpit ; growing in the axil of 

 a moss. 



Scotland, 3000 feet above the sea (Rev. J. Stevenson). 

 Clova (Mr. Gardner). Invercauld (Mr. C. E. Broome). 

 Broemar (Mr. C. E. Broome). Rannock (Dr. B. White). 



75. Peziza pilifera. CoOke. 



Cups scattered, sessile, hemispherical, becoming ap- 

 planate, orange-red ; externally clothed with evanescent 

 web-like filaments ; margin connivent or erect, irregularly 

 fimbriately cleft, pallid ; hymenium plane or a little con- 

 cave, orange-red ; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 smooth, 20 x 9^u; paraphyses filiform, obscurely septate, 

 sometimes branched, apices sub-clavate. 



Peziza pilifera Cooke in " Mycogr," fig. 92. Leuco- 

 loma ascoboloides Rehm, "Asco," 54; Winter in 

 " Flora," 1873 (not Peziza ascoboloides Mont. ; nor De 

 Notaris ; nor Peziza ascoboloides Schw.). 



Exs. Rehm, " Asco.," 54. 



On the ground. Spring. 



Cup about J a line or more broad. 



The external hairs are so delicate and evanescent 

 that they are seldom to be found on the dried specimens, 

 and seem to be of the same character as the delicate 

 filaments at the base of Peziza omphalodes ; not to be 



