62 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Cup 2 to 3 inches broad, 1J inches high, sack-shaped ; 

 margin entire, but occasionally divided to the base on 

 one side ; externally dark olive green ; hymenium dull 

 ochery brown ; the mycelium ferruginous. Very distinct 

 from P. leporina. 



Name From grandis, large. 



Hey wood Forest, near Hereford! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



25. Peziza ochracea. Boud. 



Cup sessile, crespitose, entire, subflexuous, bright 

 ochraceous, externally furfuraceous ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, biguttulate, hyaline, smooth ; 

 22 24 X 12/i; paraphyses linear, often divided at the 

 summits into two or three short obtuse processes. 



Peziza ochracea Boud. in Herb.; Cooke, "Mycogr.," 

 fig. 377; Pat., p. 170, f. 374 Aleuria ochracea Gill., 

 " Champ.," p. 41, c. i. 



On the ground in beech woods. Spring. 



Cup 1 to 2 inches broad, fleshy at the base, densely 

 caespitose ; hymenium wrinkled ; exterior coarsely fur- 

 furaceous. The paraphyses are septate, and often branched 

 at the top into two or three short processes. 



Name Ochra, ochre ; the colour of yellow ochre. 



The Wrekin, Salop ! 



26. Peziza Adce. Sadler. 



Cup sessile, subcsespitose, cochleate, irregular, be- 

 coming expanded ; margin entire or lobed, refiexed ; 

 hymenium white, rosy white, violaceous, or ochraceus ; 

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

 13 X Ifi] paraphyses linear. 



Peziza Adce Sadler ; Cooke, " Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin.," 

 1857, p. 45 (with figure) ; " Grevillea," vi. t. 97, figs. 1-3. 

 Peziza domiciliana Cooke in Gard. Chron., 1877. 



Exs. Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," ed. ii. 649 ; Phil, " Elv. 

 Brit.," No. 154. 



On damp walls, etc. 



Cup \ an inch to 2 inches broad ; disc variable in 

 form and colour, but always thin and delicate. 



