PEZIZA. 101 



00. Peziza bovina. Phil. 



Cups gregarious, sessile, with obconic base, expanded, 

 umber-colour, glabrous ; disc umbilicate, waved ; margin 

 paler ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, oblong- elliptic, smooth, 

 19 X Q/UL ; paraphy ses scarce or none. 



Peziza bovina Phil, in Stevenson's " Myco. Scot," 

 p. 308. 



On cow-dung. August. 



Cup 4 to 6 lines broad. 



Exterior cells of cup very large, TO/* in diameter. 



Name Bovina, pertaining to an ox ; from its habitat. 



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



91. Peziza depressa. Phil. 



Cups gregarious or crowded, sessile, applanate ; 

 hymenium convex, umber-brown, glabrous ; margin 

 scarcely elevated ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 smooth, biguttulate, 20 x 13/u ; paraphyses linear, stout, 

 septate, apices clavate, brown. 



Peziza depressa Phil, in Cooke's " Mycogr.," fig. 392. 



On dead branches of willow, on damp ground. July. 



Cup 1 to 2 lines broad. This adheres to the wood 

 by a broadish base, and while moist the whole under side 

 is pressed against the wood. The disc is convex ; the 

 margin acute, and a little paler. The sporidia are very 

 variable in size and broadly elliptical. The cells of the 

 exterior of the cup are medium size, 15 to 20/j broad. 



Name Depressus, pressed down ; from its applanate 

 growth. 



Almond Park Pool, near Shrewsbury ! 



Hymenium greenish. 



92. Peziza jungermannice. Nees. 



Cups scattered, sessile, fleshy, glabrous, blackish-green, 

 plane, margined ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, 

 broadly elliptic, seruginous, smooth, 17 X 9/u. ; paraphyses 

 filiform, branched, apices pyriform, seruginous. 



Peziza jungermannice Nees in Fries, " Sys. Myco.," 



