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cochleata Fckl, "Symb. Myco./' 329; Sacc, "Myco. 

 Ven. Sp," p. 107. 



Exs. Fckl, "F. Eh.," 1232. 



On the ground. Summer and autumn. 



Cup 1 to 2 inches broad, sometimes larger, often 

 densely csespitose, hence irregular and much contorted. 



Name Cochlea, the shell of a snail. 



King's Cliffe, Laxton, Aboyne, Milton, Lea, Coed 

 Coch (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Llanrwst, North Wales ! 

 Altringham Park, Shrewsbury ! 



23. Peziza alutacea. Pers. 



Cup subsessile, contorted, pallid-fuliginous ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, minutely asperate, 

 12 14 X 6 7/u; paraphyses linear, sparse. 



Peziza alutacea Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 638 ; Cooke, 

 'Mycogr.," f. 214. Peziza cochleata f3. alutacea Fries, 

 "Sys. Myco.," ii. 50; Weinm., "Hym," p. 416. Aluria 

 alutacea Gill, " Champ," p. 42. 



Exs. Fckl, " F. Rh.," 1229. 



On the ground in woods. Autumn. 



Cup 2 inches or more broad, resembling P. cochleata, 

 from which the rough sporidia distinguish it. 



Name Aluta, tanned leather; tan-coloured. 



Milton, 1842, and Coed Coch, 1877; near Hereford, 

 1878. 



24. Peziza grandis. Pers. 



Csespitose or solitary, sessile, flexuous ; externally 

 olivaceous-umber, with a lacunose albo-tomentose base ; 

 hymenium ochery yellow ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 elliptic, narrower at the ends, biguttulate, 16 X 7// ; 

 paraphyses linear, straight or curved at the apices. 



Peziza grandis Pers, " Obs," i. p. 27 ; Pers, " Syn. 

 Fung," p. 636. Peziza abietina, var. c. Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco," ii. 47. Peziza grandis Boud. in Cooke, "Mycogr," 

 rig. 376 ; Pat, p. 209, f. 480 (?). Aleuria grandis Gill., 

 " Champ," p. 42 (?). 



On the ground in pine woods. 



