88 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Name o-\w, to cleave, viropa, a seed ; from the 

 splitting of the epispore. 

 Wrekin, Salop ! 



(y) Hymenium violet. 



65. Peziza violascens. Cooke. 



Cup subhemispherical, brownish -violet, whitish at 

 the base, furnished with pallid rooting fibres ; hymenium 

 violet, plane, or a little convex; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, 

 globose, uniguttulate, smooth, 8 9/* ; paraphyses filiform, 

 apices curved. 



Peziza violascens Cooke in " Mycogr.," fig. 83. 

 Ascobolus Persoonii Crouan, " Flo. Fin.," p. 56. Alewria 

 violasctns Gill., " Champ.," p. 49 ; Boud., " Ascob./' 



p. 67. 



On damp sandy ground amongst moss. 



Cup 2J to 3 lines broad, fleshy, glabrous, margin 

 entire. 



Name- - FioZa, a violet; approaching a violet colour. 



Shelton Rough, near Shrewsbury ! 



B. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC. 



(a) Epispore asperate. 

 (a) Hymenium reddish-brown. 



66. Peziza vivida. Nyl. 



Cups substipitate, gregarious or scattered, fleshy, 

 cup-shaped, rather deeply excavated, reddish-brown, 

 externally paler, flocculose ; margin entire, acute ; asci 

 cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, elliptic, very minutely 

 granulate, 23 X 12/i; paraphyses septate, apices clavate, 

 tilled with red granules. 



Peziza vivida Nyl in " Flora," 1865, p. 476 ; " Fez. 

 Fenn.," p. 22; Gonn. and Rabh., "Myco. Eur.," iii. t. 4, 

 f. 3; "Grevillea," iii. p. 120, fig. 80; Cooke, "Mycogr.," 

 fig. 53. Peziza Pofo/ricAi- -Rabh., "Herb. Myco.," ii. 

 p. 310. Aleuria vivida Gill., "Champ.," p. 54. 



