TAPESIA. 



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E. Cups externally naked. 



(a) Sporidia fusiform or oblong, 

 (a) Sporidia simple 

 (/3) Sporidia septate or nucleate . . 

 Doubtful . . 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



species 7 



2. 



3. 



Tapesiurn blood-red . . 



Tapesium golden-yellow 



Tapesium blackish-brown 



Tapesium whitish 

 (Growing on Aira casspitosa 

 \Growing on bark or wood 



Cups glabrous ; hymeniurn pallid- white, cinereous, 

 or brownish 



Cups subtomentose ; hymeniuna cinereous 



Cups rufous, with a satiny lustre 



Hymenium pale tawny 



Hymenium bluish-grey, sometimes black 



Hymenium. whitish, when dry yellowish 



9 



sanguined. 



aurelia. 



1 



3 



mutabilis 



2 



fused. 



Johnstoni. 

 rhakdosp' rma. 

 cxsia. 

 eriobasis. 



A. CUPS EXTERNALLY VILLOSE OR TOMENTOSE. 



(a) Sporidia fusiform or oblong, 

 (a) Sporidia simple. 



1. Tapesia ccesia. (Pers.) 



Sessile, becoming plane, villous, whitish ; margin 

 obtuse ; base seated on a subiculum of long, interwoven, 

 whitish mycelium ; hymenium subgelatinous, fuliginous 

 brown or bluish-grey ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 

 8, cylindrical or oblong-elliptic, straight or curved, 

 5 6 X 2/z ; paraphyses slenderly filiform. 



. Peziza Lichenoides Pers., "Icon, et Desc.," p. 29, t 

 7, f 1. Peziza ccesia Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 657 : 

 "Myco. Eur.," p. 272; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 108; 

 Nees, "Sys," f. 272; Dit. and Sturm., "Dent. Flo," iii. 

 t. 31 ; " Eng. Flo," v. p. 199 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 

 2068. Tapesia ccesm -Fckl, " Symb. Myco," p. 301. 

 Peziza chavetice Lib, exs. No. 26 ; Cooke, " Handbk," 

 No. 2069. Lachnea ccesia Gill, " Champ," p. 92. 



Exs. Libert, "Crypt. Ard," No. 26; Cooke, "Fang. 

 Brit," No. 562, ed. ii. 555 ; Phil, " Elv. Brit," No. 76. 

 On chips of oak, etc. Autumn. 



