282 BKITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Name Sanguis, blood ; blood-colour. 

 Beeston, Nottinghamshire. Shifnal, Salop. 



(]3) Sporidia septate. 

 8. Tapesia fusca. (Pers.) 



Subiculum formed of densely woven, brown filaments, 

 at times widely diffused, at other times hardly visible ; 

 cups scattered or gregarious, concave, brown, then plane, 

 cinereous, mouth often paler ; hymenium pallid-white, 

 cinereous, or brownish ; externally glabrous ; asci clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, fusiform or oblong-fusiform, simple or 2-guttu- 

 late, becoming pseudo-septate, 8 16 X 2 3/u. Peziza 

 fusca Pers., " Obs.," i. p. 29; " Syn. Fung.," p. 657; 

 '" Myco. Eur," i. p. 272 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 109 ; 

 Grev., t. 192 ; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 200 (in part) ; Cooke, 

 " Handbk.," No. 2074 ; Nyl., " Pez. Fenn.," p. 50 ; Karat., 

 " Pez. et Ascob.," p. 26. Tapesia fusca Fckl., " Symb. 

 Myco.," p. 302. Mollisia fusca Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," 

 p. 207. Pkialea fusca Gill., " Champ.," p. 113. 



Exs. Fckl., "F. Rh," 1593; Phil., " Elv. Brit." 77 

 Rhem, "Asco.," 153; Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," ed. ii. 556. 



On wood. Spring and autumn. 



Cups about J a line wide. 



Name Fuscus, brown, with a grey tinge. 



Near Shrewsbury ! Hereford ! Very common. 



9. Tapesia Johnstoni. (Berk.) 



Sessile ; cups globose or subturbinate, at length open 

 and rufous, with a satiny lustre, attached beneath to a 

 broad, black-brown, grumous subiculum. 



Peziza Johnstoni Berk., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 313. 



On fallen branches. 



** Forming a uniform stratum on decayed sticks. Cups 

 half a line broad, at first brown and pulverulent, at length 

 rufous, rather thin, with a satiny lustre, subturbinate, 

 with the margin permanently inflected, at first quite 

 dosed; subiculum granulated, grumous, obscurely floccose" 

 (M. J. B.). 



