:> 1 UUITISII DISCOMYCETES. 



\\Yybri<l<_;v <Mr. F. Currey). Carlisle (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 

 Newbiggin Quarry, Carlisle! (Dr. Carlyle). Castle 

 llisin^ 'Norfolk! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Abbots Leigh, 

 near Bristol (Mr. C. Bucknall). Wrekin, Salop! Tibber- 

 i.ui, Salop: Hoivatton Park, Salop! General Cemetery, 

 Slm-wsbiiry ! Kingsland, Shrewsbury! Dolgelly, North 

 \Vules ! 



14. Peziza auricula. Cooke. 



Subcaespitose, fleshy, elongated on one side, ear-shaped, 

 flesh-red, externally farinose ; asci cylindrical, stipitate ; 

 sporidia elliptic, smooth, 22 28 X 12 Ifyt ; paraphyses 

 ciavate at the summits (Cooke). 



Peziza auricula Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 213 ; Schseff., 

 " Icon.," t. 15(5 (in part). Peziza leporina Rabh., " Fung. 

 Eur.," No. 512 ; Nyl., " Pez. Fenn.," p. 9 ; Karst., " Mon. 

 Pez.," p. 111. Aleuria auricula Gill., " Champ.," p. 40. 



Exs. Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," No. 473 ; Rabh., " Fung. 

 Eur.," 512 ; Rehm., " Asco.," 652. 



Cup 1 to 2 inches broad and high. Resembling P. 

 onotica in habit, but different in colour and fruit 

 (Cooke, I. c.). 



Name Auricula, the ear; from its shape. 



Ross, Herefordshire ! 



15. Peziza apopliysata. Cooke and Phil. 



Cup sessile, unequal, lobed, subcontorted, elongated 

 on one side, externally umber-brown; hymenium blackish- 

 brown, smooth ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 --guttulate, smooth, 20 22 X 12/z; paraphyses slender, 

 forked near the summits, subclavate. 



Peziza apopliysata Cooke and Phil, in " Grevillea " 

 (187C), v. p. 60 ; Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 350. 



On the side of a wet ditch. Autumn. 



Cup -J- to 1 inch broad, csespitose or gregarious, 

 irregular in form, margin indented, erect ; paraphyses 

 branched in a peculiar manner. 



Name cnro^ixn^, an oifshoot; from the branching 

 paraphyses. 



Near Shrewsbury ! 



