PEZIZA. G5 



ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 



A. Sporidia globose . . . . . . . . species 30-31 



B. Sporidia elliptic, smooth . . . . . . 32-35 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Sporidia spherical, rough 

 Sporidia spherical, smooth 

 Sporidia elliptic 



Hymenium purple ; cup subglobose 

 Hyruenium umber-browa ; cup costate below 

 1. ^Hymenium fulvo-rufescent, at length reticulate ; cu] 



! 



Isubstipitate 

 Hymenium fulvous ; cup repand, substipitate 



trachycarpa. 

 I incur pa. 

 1 



coronaria. 

 venosa. 



reticiilata. 

 repanda. 



A. SPORIDIA GLOBOSE. 



30. Peziza trachycarpa. Curr. 



Cup orbicular, then plane, very often umbilicate ; 

 hymenium blackish-brown, rough, tuberculate ; externally 

 granulated ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, globose, muricate, 

 brown, 12 15/u. ; paraphyses either filiform with clavate 

 apices, or broad, pallid-brown, resembling empty asci. 

 (Plate III. fig. 15.) 



Peziza trachycarpa Curr., "Linn. Trans.," xxiv. 

 p. 493, t. 51, figs. 3 and 5 ; B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," 

 No. 1061, t. xiv. fig. 13; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 1984; 

 " Mycogr.," fig. 257 ; Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 61. Peziza 

 funu Nyl., " Fez. Fenn.," p. 15. Aleuria trachycarpa 

 -Gill., " Champ," p. 203, c. i. 



Exs. Rabh, "Fung. Eur.," 620; Karst. "Fung. 

 Fenn.," 457 ; Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 57. 



On burnt ground. Summer and autumn. 



Cup ^ to 1J broad. 



Name rpa\vg, rough, Kapiroz, fruit ; from the rough 

 sporidia. 



Ascot ! (Rev. G. H. Sawyer). Norton Camp, near 

 Craven Arms ! Bomere, near Shrewsbury ! Attingham 

 Park, Shrewsbury ! 



31. Peziza leiocarpa. Curr. 



Cup at first connivent, subglobose, externally (prin- 

 cipally towards the margin) rough, vinous-brown, thin, 



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