PEZIZA. 79 



slightly elevated and curved inwards ; disc honey-coloured 

 or cream-coloured, externally darker. 



Name Mel, honey ; from the colour. 



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



50. Peziza undata. Smith. 



Cup medium size, stipitate, rooting, fleshy ; hyme- 

 nium slightly concave, afterwards expanded, then re- 

 flexed, generally corrugated, yellowish, buff, grey, purple, 

 or pallid ; asci cylindrical ; sporiclia 8, elliptic, smooth, 

 10 X o/uL ; paraphyses stout, enlarged upwards. 



Peziza undata Smith in "Grevillea," i. p. 136, t. 10 

 figs. 1, 2 ; " Grevillea," iii. fig. 44 ; Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 

 279. 



On stems of tree ferns. May. 



Cup J to f of an inch broad. 



Name Unda, a wave ; waved. 



Veitch's Nursery, Chelsea (Mr. W. G. Smith). 



51. Peziza sepiatra. Cooke. 



Cups sessile or substipitate, gregarious, hemispherical, 

 soon expanded, becoming applanate ; hymenium plane, 

 umbilicate, blackish-brown, margins lightly elevated ; 

 externally umber-brown, subfurfuraceous ; asci cylin- 

 drical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 20 22 X llju; para- 

 physes clavate at the apices. 



Peziza sepiatra Cooke in "Grevillea," iii. 119, fig. 

 135 ; " Mycogr.," fig. 261. 



Exs. Cooke, " Fung. Brit," 184; Phil, " Elv. Brit.," 

 105. 



On the ground in damp, shady places ; on road- 

 scrapings, etc. Spring. 



Cup J an inch broad, often less, rather brittle. The 

 margin is minutely crenulated, incurved, and paler than 

 the disc. The cells forming the exterior of the cup are 

 30/z diameter. 



Name Sepia, a pigment, ater, black ; brownish black. 



Shelton Rough, Shrewsbury ! Baschurch, Salop ! 

 EJenbury Churchyard, near Bristol (Mr. Spencer Perceval). 



