b'O BRITISH D1SCOMYCETES. 



Cup scarcely an inch broad, very much resembling 

 P. fibrillosa (Currey), but with decidedly different fruit. 

 Name Leuculentus, clear ; from the colour. 

 Near Sheffield (Mr. H. C. Sorby, F.R.S.). 



21. Peziza fibrillosa. Curr. 



Cup nearly sessile, irregular, orange, clothed ex- 

 ternally with dingy-white downy fibrillse, which form a 

 rather dense tomentose edging to the cup ; asci cylin- 

 drical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, eguttulate, 16 18 X 9/*; 

 paraphyses filiform, globoso-clavate. 



Peziza fibrillosa Curr. in "Linn. Trans.," xxiv. 

 p. 153 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 1977 ; " Mycogr.," fig. 207. 



On the ground. October. 



Cup 1 inch broad, often divided on one side ; when 

 young the margin is involute, afterwards erect ; the 

 exterior is very tomentose, nearly white. It resembles 

 P. aurantia, but differs in having smooth sporidia and 

 paraphyses with globose summits. 



Name Fibra, a fibre ; clothed with downy fibrillse. 



Hanham Wood ! (Mr. F. Currey). King's Lynn ! 

 (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



22. Peziza cochleata. Bull. 



Cup sessile, csespitose, large, twisted, umber, ex- 

 ternally pruinose ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 smooth, biguttulate, 16 19 X 7 S/z; paraphyses filiform, 

 often branched and curved at the summits. 



Peziza cochleata Bull., " Champ.," t. 154, f. 2; Sow., 

 "Fung.," t. 5; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. 50; Gonn. and 

 Kabh., t. 2, f. 5 ; Seer, " Mycogr.," iii. 296 ; " Eng. Flo.," 

 v. p. 188; Berk, " Outl," p. 363: Cooke, "Handbk.," 

 No. 1971 ; " Micogr.," fig. 212 ; Weinm., " Hym.," p. 416 ; 

 Koumg., "Crypt. Illus." t. 265; Berk., Gard. Chron., 

 1867. Aleuria cochleata Gill., "Champ.," p. 42, c. i. 

 Fungoides fuscum Buxb., " Petr," iv. t. 29, f. 1. Peziza 

 umbrinaPeTB., " Obs," i. 77 ; Sv., " Bot.," t. 486, f. 2. 

 Elvela ochroleuca Schseff., "Icon.," t. 274. Otidca 



