PEZIZA. 97 



Cup 2J lines broad. 



It can at once be recognized as wholly different from 

 anything previously described. The cups were grouped 

 on a spot five or six inches in length and two or three 

 inches broad, on a decorticated trunk, saturated with 

 water, in contiguity to Peziza scutellata (Dr. Cooke). 



Name Acici0oe, the yolk of an egg ; from its colour. 



Forden, Montgomeryshire (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



82. Peziza glumarum. Desm. 



Cups crowded, sessile, when young conical, globose, 

 covered with white flocci, becoming concave or nearly 

 plane, glabrous, flexuose, orange-yellow; margin nearly 

 lacerated, white ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 smooth, 18 X lOju ; paraphyses linear. 



Peziza glumarum Desm., " Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1841, 

 xv. p. 129; "Grevillea," iii. fig. 77; Cooke, " Mycogr.," 

 39. Aleuria glumarum Gill., " Champ.," p. 55. 



Exs. Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," 1054;, ii. 454; Rabh., 

 "Fung. Eur," 2967. 



On chaff. Spring. 



Cup 2 to 5 lines broad. 



Name Gluma, chaff; from its habitat. 



Batheaston, near Bath (Mr. C. E. Broome). Cliffe 

 Pypard, Wilts (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



83. Peziza xanthomela. Pers. 



Cups gregarious, sessile, somewhat difformed ; hyme- 

 nium subconvex, lutescent ; externally blackish brown ; 

 asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic or oblongo-elliptic, 

 smooth, 11 12 X G/LL ; paraphyses filiform, very slender, 

 apices curved. 



Peziza xanthomela Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 665 ; 

 Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. 74 ; " Grevillea/' iii. fig. 86 ; Cooke, 

 "Mycogr.," 41. Aleuria xanthomela Gill., "Champ.," 

 p. 207. 



Exs. Rabh., "Fung. Eur.," 315. 



On the ground in pine woods, and on dead larch-wood. 

 Autumn. 



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