PEZIZA. 77 



"Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1836, iii. 244; B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. 

 Hist./' No. 1157, t. 4, f. 18 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 2006 ; 

 ' Mycogr.," fig. 78. Aleuria brunneo-atra Gill., 

 " Champ./' p. 53, c. i. 



Exs. Desm., Crypt. Fr.," i. 826, ii. 26. 



On the ground. Spring. 



Name Brunneus, deep brown, and ater, black. 



Leigh Woods, near Bristol! (Mr. C. E. Broome and 

 Mr. Spencer Perceval). 



B. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC, SMOOTH. 



46. Peziza purpurascens. Pers. 



Cup sessile, campanulate, then expanded, conically 

 attenuated to the base, livid-purple, glabrous ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elongate-elliptic, biguttulate, 

 smooth, 20 22 X 7'Ofj. ; paraphyses filiform, thickened 

 upwards. 



Peziza purpurascens Pers., " Myco. Eur.," p. 242, 1. 12, 



f. 10; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. 65; Gonn. and Rabh., 



Myco. Eur.," t. 3, f. 3 ; Cooke, " Grevillea," v. p. 60 ; 



'Mycogr.," fig. 276. Aleuria purpurascens Gill., 



" Champ.," p. 48, c. i. 



Exs. Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," ii. 543. 



On the ground. Autumn. 



Cup i to 1 inch broad. The sporidia are fusiform. 



Name Purpuracens, inclining to purple. 



Shrewsbury ! King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



47. Peziza tectoria. Cooke. 



Cup sessile or substipitate, globose, afterwards ex- 

 panded, applanate; hymenium plane, subumbilicate, pallid- 

 ochraceous ; externally whitish, furfuraceous, becoming 

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

 18 20 X 9 10//; paraphyses filiform. 



Peziza tectoria Cooke in "Grevillea," iii. p. 119; 

 ' Mycogr.," fig. 263; Phil., "Trans. Woolhope Club," 

 1876, p. 224, with figure. 



On damp plaster walls. Summer and autumn. 



