280 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



sporidia uniserlate, cylindrical, obtuse at the ends, straight, 

 hyaline, 10 X 2/ui ; paraphyses filiform, not clavate. 



Tapesia Prunicola Fckl, " Symb. Myco.," p. 302. 



Exs. FckL, "F. Eh.," 1190; Phil., "Elv. Brit," 306. 



On branches of Prunus spinosa. 



Name Prunus, the genus to which the sloe belongs ; 

 growing on sloe. 



King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



(/3) Sporidia septate. 

 5. Tapesia rhabdosperma. (B. and Br.) 



Subiculum thin, tomentose, pale, tawny ; cups scat- 

 tered, of the same colour ; externally paler, villose ; margin 

 inflexed ; hymeniuni brighter ; asci lanceolate, obtuse ; 

 sporidia 8, filiform, multiguttulate, 65 X 3/z ; paraphyses 

 slenderly filiform, sometimes branched. 



Peziza rhabdosperma B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," 

 No. 1621 ; " Grevillea," v. p. 61. 



On dead wood. November. 



Cups about 500ft broad. 



This is so near Arachnopeziza aurata Fckl. ("Symb. 

 Myco," p. 304) that I am disposed to think it at most a 

 variety, differing in its paler colour. The sporidia cor- 

 respond exactly. 



Name pafiSog, a rod, cnrtpiui, seed ; from the form of 

 the sporidia. 



Leigh Downs ! (C. E. Broome). 



6. Tapesia aurelia. (Pers.) 



Sessile, scattered, subventricose, golden-yellow ; subi- 

 culum thin, whitish ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 

 8, oblong or oblong-fusiform, triseptate, 14^20 x 3 5^t; 

 paraphyses slenderly filiform. (Plate VIII. fig. 50.) 



Peziza aurelia Pers, " Myco. Eur," p. 270 ; Fries, 

 "Sys. Myco," ii. p. 107; "Eng. Flo," v. p. 199; Nyl, 

 " Pez. Fenn," p. 50 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 2065. Peziza 

 Wauchii Grev, t. 139 ; Pat, p. 126, f. 285. Arachno- 

 peziza aurelia Fckl, c: Symb. Myco," p. 303, Patellaria 



