108 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 18 X 8/u ; 

 paraphyses filiform, numerous. 



Peziza domestica Sow., "Fung.," t. 351; " Eng. 

 Flo," v. p. 199 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 2066 ; Phil, and 

 Plow, "Grevillea," vi. p. 23. Peziza pluvialis Cooke, 

 " Mycogr," fig. 90. 



Exs. Phil, "Elv. Brit," No. 113. 



On damp plaster walls and ceilings, on damp paper ; 

 also on burnt ground. 



Name Domus, a house ; from the habitat. 



Eastbourne ! (Mr. C. J. Miller). King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. 

 B. Plowright). Clifton, near Bristol ! (Mr. C. Bucknall). 

 Shrewsbury ! Chichester (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



Cup very minute, hardly ^ a line broad. The colour 

 varies from reddish-brown to pale orange-flesh or salmon- 

 colour ; the hairs are very fugaceous. 



Sowerby's figure represents the cups as coated with 

 rigid brown hairs, but no such hairs are to be seen in 

 his original specimen, which by the kindness of the 

 Rev. M. J. Berkeley I have been permitted to examine. 



102. Peziza subhirsuta. Schum. 



Cups sessile, gregarious, nearly plane, orange-yellow, 

 externally paler, clothed with a few white scattered, 

 almost obsolete hairs ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 smooth, 18 20 X lju; paraphyses clavate at the apices, 

 filled with red granules. 



Peziza subhirsuta Schum, " Flo. Dan," t. 1787, 

 f. 2 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 70 ; B. and Br., " Ann. 

 Nat. Hist," No. 1156, t. 3, f. 14; Karat., "Myco. Fenn," 

 p. 65; Cooke, "Handbk.," 1999; "Mycogr," fig. 66; 

 " Grevillea," iii. f. 52. Pyronema subhirsutum Fckl , 

 " Symb. Myco," 320. A leuria subhirsuta Gill, Champ.," 

 p. 49. 



Exs. Desm, "Crypt. Fr," i. 462; Fckl, "F. Rh," 

 1220. 



On the ground in damp places. Autumn. 



Cup 1 to 2 lines broad. 



Name Sub, somewhat, hirsutus, hairy. 



