TAPESIA. 279 



When old it bears some resemblance to pale forms 

 of P. atrata and P. palustris " (M. J. B.). 



Cups 200 to 3GO/J. broad, seated on a dark radiating 

 tapesium. No hairs are discoverable on the cups in the 

 original specimens. 



Name MwtabUis, variable. 



Deny Hill, Wilts ! 



4. Tapesia Rosce. (Pers.) 



Sessile, subcoriaceous, concave, subtomentose, bright 

 brown, as well as the tomentose subiculum ; asci cylin- 

 rlraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-fusiform, 7 10 X 2'5/u. ; 

 paraphyses indistinct. 



Peziza Rosce Pers., " Obs.," 2, p. 82 ; " Myco. Eur," 

 p. 278; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 109; "Eng. Flo.," v. 

 p. 200 ; Tode, i. .41 ; Berk., " Mag. Zool. and Bot," No. 

 10; Karst., " Pez. et Ascob.," p. 25; Nyl., " Pez. Fenn," 

 p. 34; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 2073. Tympanis obtexta 

 (Wallr.), var. pezizceformis--W3d\T., " Flo. Germ.," ii. 

 p. 428. Tapesia EOSCB- -Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 301. 

 Mollisea Rosce Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 208. Lachnea 

 Rosce Gill, " Champ.," p. 92. 



Exs. Rabh, "Fung. Eur.," nov. ed.,359 ; Karst., "Fung. 

 Fenn," 276; Fckl, " F. Rh," 1874; Berk, exs. No. 157; 

 Cooke, " Fung. Brit," 477 ; Phil, " Elv. Brit," 30. 



On dead branches of Rosa canina. Autumn. 



Cups J a line broad ; subiculum tomentose, broadly 

 effused, indeterminate ; cups scattered or aggregated, at 

 first urceolate ; margin intlexed, then greatly expanded, 

 when dry corrugated and deformed. 



Name Rosa, the genus to which the wild rose 

 belongs. 



Appin (Capt. Carmichael). King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. 

 Plowright). Clungunford, Salop ! 



Var. Prunicola. Fckl. 



Cups twice the size of those in T. Rosce, very black, 

 and the hairs more brown-black ; asci oblong, stipitate ; 



