82 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



" Sys. Myco.," ii. 65 ; Karat., "Mon. Fez.," p. 116 ; Karst, 

 "Myco. Fenn.," 57; Nyl., "Fez. Fenn.," 14 ; Gonn. and 

 Rabh., " Myco. Bur.," iii. t. 3, f. 2 ; " GreviUea ," iii. fig. 34 ; 

 Cooke, "Mycogr.," fig. 278. Aleuria violacea Gill., 

 " Champ.," p. 47. 



Exs. Karat., " Fung. Fenn.," 455. 



On the ground. May to October. 



Cups about 3 lines broad. 



Name Violaceus, of a violet colour. 



Monkstown, Dublin ! (Mr. Greenwood Pirn). 



57. Peziza viridaria. B. and Br. 



Cup sessile, globose, then hemispherical, at length 

 expanded, watery-grey ; externally rough with brown 

 furfuraceous particles ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 broadly elliptic, smooth, 12 x 6 '5^; paraphyses clavate 

 at the apices, and filled with brown granules. 



Peziza viridaria B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist./' No. 

 555; Berk., " Outl.," 364; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 1988; 

 Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 262. 



On damp walls and water-butts. Autumn and 

 winter. 



Cup J to J an inch broad, pale watery-brown, or 

 cinereous, sessile, springing from a white cottony effused 

 stratum. 



Name Viridarium, a greenhouse ; from its habitat. 



Wall of a greenhouse, King's Cliffe (Rev. M. J. 

 Berkeley). Clifton, near Bristol ! (Mr. Cedric Bucknall). 



SUBGENUS IX. HUMARIA. 



Cups sessile, entire, hemispherical, then flattened, 

 rather thick, fleshy, mostly highly coloured. (Plates IV. 

 V. figs. 19-22.) 



Name Humus, moist earth ; from the usual habitat. 



ARRANGEMENT OP THE SPECIES. 



A. Sporidia globose. 



(a) Epispore reticulated. . .. .. species 58-59 



(6) Epispore spinulose . . . . . . GO 



