330 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



yellow ; hymenium same colour ; asci clavate ; sporidia 

 8, oblong-elliptic, 8 x 3,u ; paraphyses slenderly filiform. 



Peziza hyalina Herb. Leigh ton at Kew. 



On Polyporus. 



Cups J to 1 line broad. The colour varies from 

 white to very pale yellow ; somewhat diaphanous. The 

 sporidia are considerably larger than Peziza epipora, 

 Nyl. 



Name After the Rev. W. A. Leighton. 



Near Shrewsbury ! (Rev. W. A. Leighton). 



7. Calloria ulcerata. Phil, and Plow. 



Scattered, erumpent, plane ; margin fimbriate; hyme- 

 nium dirty orange ; asci clavate ; sporidia 4, elliptic, 

 granular within, 15 x 8/z ; paraphyses filiform, simple or 

 forked, enlarged at the summits, often contorted. 



Peziza ulcerata Phil, in " Elv. Brit. ; ' Phil, and 

 Plow., " Grevillea," iv. p. 122, t. 62, f. 5. Peziza tripolii 

 -B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist," No. 1623. 



Exs. Phil, "Elv. Brit.," No. 83; Winter, "Fungi 

 Eur." 2206 ; Cooke, " Fung. Brit," ed. ii. No. 549. 



On dead stems of Aster tripolium. 



Allied to P. fusarioides, Berk. 



Name From ulcero, to form scabs ; scabby. 



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



8. Calloria leucostigma. (Fries.) 



Gregarious or scattered, sessile, plane, submem- 

 branaceous, white, becoming yellowish, translucent ; asci 

 cylindrical or cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, globose- 

 elliptic, uniseriate, 2 X 1'5/j ; paraphyses filiform, ex- 

 tremely slender, globose at the apices. 



Peziza leucostigma Fries, " Obs. Myco./' i. p. 165 ; 

 " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 146 ; Karat, " Pez. et Ascob.," p. 39 ; 

 "Mon. Pez.," p. 174; Nyl., " Pez. Fenn.," p. 54; " Eng. 

 Flo.," v. p. 206 ; Berk., " Out!.," p. 371 ; Cooke, "Handbk," 

 No. 2108. Orbilia leucostigma Fries, " Summa Veg. 

 Scan.," p. 357 ; Karst, " Myco. Fenn.," p. 99. Mollisia 

 leucostigma Gill., " Champ.," 126. 



