DI8COMYOETE8, 



an inch thick, Bometimes obsolete; pileus pale buff, 

 thin, transparent, scalloped at tin- edge, shaped like the 

 cup ..!' an acorn, al>"ut 1 inch in diameter (Withering). 



Nam.- ipula, a little cup. 



Shrubbery, in mossy turf, Kd.^baston (Withering); 

 A.pethorpe, Milt-.n (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Caistor (Hen- 

 derson . Bo^i 1. Wiltshire (Mr. Currey). Salhouse, 



rf,,1k H>r. M. 0. Cooke). Taverham, Norfolk (Mr. 



C K ri.-wriu-ht). Brock Icy Comb, near Bristol (Mr. C 



Wivkin! Kingsland, Shrewsbury! Hereford! 



G. P> :>--<i carnea (nov. sp.). Cooke and Phil. 

 Cup cyathiform, rather thin, firm, glabrous, flesh - 

 rnlnured, margin crenate, erect ; stem rather long, 

 -k-nder, expanding into the decurrently wrinkled base 

 I' the cup; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 

 1 .'> x G/u. ; paraphyses filiform, curved at the summit. 

 /', :,':./ cupularis L. var. in Herb. Berk., Milton. 

 Cup from 5 to 10 lines broad ; stem from 3 to 6 lines 

 and about 1 line thick. 



Caro, flesh; flesh-coloured. 



7. Peziza muralis. Sow. 



Cup at first cyathiform, then expanded, nearly plane, 

 tinn, lleshy in the centre, thin towards the margin, 

 Jal >n >us, dirty brownish-white; stem short, rather slender; 



, cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, l-tx8/u; 

 puraphyse-s filiform. 



!' :/':</ mid-nits Sow., "Fung.," t. 251. 



( >n clay. 



( 'up IVoin 2 to 7 lines across, nearly uniform in colour 

 within and without, glabrous; stem about 1 to 1J lines 

 long, ciilar/m^ upwards into the thick fleshy base of the 

 cup. 



The lar-jvr ones herein figured were sent by favour 

 <>f tin- Urv. Mr. Alderson, from some clay walls in his 

 -mien at 1 lavin^luuii, Nui-folk; the smaller ones grew 

 " -<>\n<- pipe-clay intended for modelling at my own 

 Mi -ad Tlace. They differ much in size, but agree 



