PEZIZA. 99 



coming blackish ; hymenium somewhat convex or plane, 

 collapsing when dry ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, broadly 

 elliptic, smooth, 20 22 x 11--12//; paraphyses septate, 

 apices clavate. 



Peziza Oocardii " Grevillea," iii. fig. 207 ; Cooke, 

 " Mvcogr.," tig. 47. PeUidiwm, Oocardii Kalch. in Rabh, 

 " Fung. Eur," 521 ; Karst., " Myco. Fenn," p. 84 ; Scott. 

 Nat.," i. (new ser.) 861. 



Exs. Rabh., " Fung. Eur.," 521 ; Karst, " Fung. 

 Fenn.," 636 (var.). 



On stones and (var. liquiaria- -Karst.) on putrid pine- 

 wood. 



Cup 1J to 2J lines broad. 



Name From Oocardiwn, a genus of fresh-water 

 algce, on one of the species of which it was found 

 growing. 



Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 



87. Peziza hepatica. Batscli. 



Cups gregarious, sessile, concave, vinous-brown, ex- 

 ternally granulated ; margin triangular-dentate ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 26 28 X 12^u ; 

 paraphyses septate, apices slightly thickened. 



Peziza hepatica- -Batach, f. 138; B. and Br, "Ann. 

 Nat. Hist.," 1069, t. 15, f. 19 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," 2104 ; 

 "Mycogr.," fig. 85; Pat., f. 231, f. 485 (?). Aleuria 

 lepatica, Gill, "Champ," p. 208. 



Exs. Cooke, "Fnng. Brit.," i. 567, ii. 191; Rabh, 

 " Fung. Eur," 612 ; Phil, " Elv. Brit," 81. 



On the ground and rabbit-dung. January to April. 



Cup 1 to 2 lines broad. 



When young subglobose and closed, then concave 

 and flattened, 1 to 2 lines broad, of a watery consistence ; 

 paraphyses septate, the joints more or less swollen or 

 inflated; asci linear ; sporidia elliptic, uniseriate, hyaline, 

 even, '001 X "0005 in. (B. and Br.). 



Name TJTTO^, liver ; from its liver-colour. 



Bowwood, Bathford Down, Wilts (Mr. C. E. Broome). 

 Wrekin, Salop ! 



