PEZIZA. 105 



On decaying vegetable matter. 



Cup \ a line across. Much crowded ; disc barely 

 depressed, so that the cups can hardly be called cups 

 except in outline, being fleshy to the top. They have no 

 erect, thin, membranaceous, paler margin, as the type 

 has, nor are the apices of the paraph yses clavate. The 

 cells of the exterior of the cup are moderate-sized 

 20 to 30^u diam. 



Name Camosus, fleshy ; extremely fleshy. 



Glamis, N.B. ! (Rev. J. Stevenson). 



SUBGENUS X. PYROXEMA. Fckl. 



Cups often densely gregarious, sessile, fleshy, seated 

 upon or surrounded by a delicate, radiating, web-like, 

 white im^celium ; hymenium at length plane, subconvex 

 or umbilicate, scarcely marinate, losing colour ; sporidia 

 8, elliptic, smooth. (Plate IV. fig. 22.) 



Growing on ashes, burnt ground, plaster walls, and 

 damp paper. 



Some of the species (subhirsuta and domestica) are, 

 when young, clothed with delicate fugaceous hairs, 

 forming a connecting link between Peziza (as here 

 limited) and Sarcoscypha. 



Name irvp, fire ; v^w, I inhabit ; found in burnt 

 places. 



ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 



A. Cups glabrous from the first . . . . species 08-100 



B. Cups at first clothed with fugaceous hairs 101-102 

 c. Cups furni.-hecl with delicate short black hairs 103 



D. Doubtful species .. .. .. .. lOi 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 

 Margin of cup darker than hymenium, and granular mclaloma. 



Margin same colour as hymeuium 

 (Paraphyses linear, very slender; hymenium brick- 



I * * i > 



jParapbyses linear, stout; hymenium orange-red 

 Paraphyses clavate ; hymenium orange-yellow 

 Paraphyses subclavate ; hymeninm salmon-colour 



iParaphyses unknown 

 Hymeniuin blood-red 

 Hymenium yellowish .. .. .. 



1 



Pegotii. 



omphalodes. 



subhirsuta. 



domestica. 



2 



h&ma stigma. 



argillacta. 



