PEZIZA 109 



Forres ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Glamis ! (Rev. J. Steven- 

 son). Roslin, Epping, and Eastbourne (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 

 Attingham Park, Shrewsbury ! 



C. MARGIN FUKNISHED WITH VERY DELICATE SHORT 



BLACK HAIRS. 



103. Peziza melaloma. A. and S. 



Cups sessile, crowded, at first concave, then nearly 

 plane, orbicular, or nexuose, dingy orange ; margin fur- 

 nished with very delicate black fasciculate hairs ; asci 

 subcylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 15 18 X 10/z ; 

 paraphyses clavate at the apices. 



Pezizcu melaloma A. and S., " Consp," p. 336, t. 2, 

 f. 5 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. G9 ; " Eng. Flo," v. p. 190 ; 

 B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist," No. 88 ; Karst, " Myco. 

 Fenn," p. 66; Nyl, "Fez. Fenn," p. 16; Cooke, 

 "Handbk.," No. 1995; Mycogr," fig. 67; " Grevillea ," 

 iii. p. 53 ; Pat, p. 122, f. 275 (?). Pyronema melalomum 

 -Fckl, " Syrnb. Myco," 319. Aleuria melaloma Gill, 

 " Champ," p. 54, c. i. 



Exs. Karst, "Fung. Fenn," 550; Rabh, Funo-. 

 Eur.," 723; Fckl, "F. Rh," 1221; Rehm, "Asco.," 715. 



Cup 2 lines broad. The so-called "very delicate 

 black hairs " with which the margin is furnished are, in 

 the British form at least, merely prominent blackish 

 brown cells, not hairs. 



On the ground, especially where fire has been. 

 Autumn. 



Name ju\a^, black, Xw/m, a border ; black-margined. 



Coed Coch ; Wraxall, Somersetshire ; Ascot ; Orton 

 Longueville (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Glamis, N.B. (Rev. 

 J. Stevenson). Lilleshall ! and Caer Caradoc, Salop ! 

 Kew Gardens ! (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



D. DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



104. Peziza argillacea. Sow. 



Sessile, yellowish, even, at first urceolate, at length 

 cracked and torn, rooting at the base, and hairy. 



