FEZIZA. 107 



seated on a downy white tapesium ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, uniguttulate, smooth, 14 16 x 8 9ju ; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza Piggotii--'B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist," No. 

 769 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2067. 



On plaster ceilings. 



Mycelium white, downy, but not spreading very 

 widely, running up the base of the hemispherical or 

 cyathiform cups, which are about 2 lines broad ; margin 

 generally acute (B. and Br.). 



This is quite distinct from P. domestica, being larger 

 and firmer in texture, and it has different sporidia. 



Name After Mr. H. Piggot. 



Chelmsford (H. Piggot, Esq., in Herb. Berk.). 



100. Pezha hcemastigma. (Hedw.) 



Cups sessile, convex, immarginate, smooth, pale blood- 

 red ; asci cylindraceo-clavate, or clavate ; sporidia 8, 

 broadly elliptic, smooth, '20 x 10^ ; paraphyses not seen. 



Peziza hoemastigma Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. 74; B. 

 and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist," No. 1159, t 4, f. 20; Sturm, 

 xxxiii. t 11; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 2008; " Mycogr.," 

 fig. 70. Octospora ficeTnastigma Hedw., " Mus. Frond.," 

 t. 5, f. E. 



On whitewashed walls. 



Cup J of a line broad. Asci short, oblong, sub- 

 el a vate ; sporidia biseriate, nearly globose. 



Name cu/ua, blood, orry/ua, a point ; forming blood- 

 like spots. 



Pen-y-Gwryd, North Wales (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



B. CUPS AT FIRST CLOTHED WITH SLENDER FUGACEOUS 



HAIRS. 



101. Peziza domestica. Sow. 



Cups sessile, gregarious, or densely crowded, at first 

 wart-like, then conical or subcylindrical, at length cyathi- 

 form, fleshy, salmon-coloured, clothed with slender de- 

 ciduous hairs, and seated on a fugaceous white tomentum ; 



