06 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



"Myco. Fenn," p. 45 ; GreviUea/ 1 iii. fig. 75 ; "Mycogr.," 

 fig. 46. 



On the naked ground damp, and of a sandy nature. 

 September. 



Cup \ to 2J lines broad. 



Very much the colour of the soil, and buried half-way 

 in the ground. The disc is more decidedly flesh-colour. 



Name Semi, half, immersus, immersed ; half buried 

 in the soil. 



Shelton Rough, Shrewsbury ! 



Hymeniwm bright yellow. 

 SO. Peziza ascoboloides. Bert. 



Cups scattered or gregarious, sessile, concave,' orange- 

 yellow ; hymenium same colour, papillate, granular ; 

 margin furnished with white deciduous cilia ; asci cylin- 

 drical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 18 X lO^u ; paraphyses 

 linear, apices clavate. 



Peziza ascoboloides Bert, in Mont., " Syll.," p. 185 ; 

 "Flo. Chil," vii. p. 402; Cooke, "Mycogr.," fig. 352. 

 Peziza eclecta B. and Cooke in " Grevillea," 1876, v. 

 px 60. 



)n the ground. 



Cup 1 to 1 J Jines broad. The few scattered hyaline 

 septate hairs oiAhe surface of the cups are evanescent. 



Name Ascobolus, a genus of fungi, cTSoe, likeness ; 

 resembling an Ascobolus. 



Sibbertoft, Market Harborough (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 

 Shrewsbury ! 



81. Peziza lechithina. Cooke. 



Cups gregarious, sessile, egg-yellow, hemispherical, 

 then applanate, becoming convex, margin narrow, distinct, 

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

 25 x 12/z ; paraphyses septate, apices clavate, filled with 

 orange granules. 



Peziza lechithina Cooke in "Grevillea," iv. p. 110; 

 " Mycogr.," fig. 89. 



On old trunks crossing a stream. Autumn. 



