PEZIZA. 47 



cyclindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, minutely asperate, 

 15 x 8jli ; paraphyses filiform. 



On the earth. Spring. 



This has somewhat the aspect of Peziza firma in an 

 old stage of growth. The cup is lobed, undulate, de- 

 curved at the margin ; the disc is umbilicate, radiately 

 wrinkled, 8 lines broad across the widest part ; the 

 under side of the cup is smoky brown, minutely warted, 

 wrinkled longitudinally near its junction with the stem, 

 which tapers towards the base, and is 5 lines high and 

 about 1 line thick near the middle. 



Name — iriraXov, a petal, eldog, likeness ; from the 

 lobed margin. 



East Bergholt, Suffolk ! in the herbarium of the 

 Rev. M. J. Berkeley, February 2, 1852. 



(b) Sporidia elliptic, smooth. 



5. Peziza cupularis. Linn. 



Cup globose-campanulate, thin; hymenium fawn- 

 coloured or pallid, externally farinose ; margin crenate ; 

 stem slender, erect, sometimes rooting or nearly obsolete ; 

 asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 1 to 2-guttulate, 

 smooth, 18 X 10/x ; paraphyses filiform, clavate apices. 

 (Plate III. fig. 12.) 



Peziza cupularis — Linn., "Suec," No. 1273; Fries, 

 " Sys. Myco.," ii. 64 ; Pers., " Obs.," ii. t. 4, f. 6, 7 ; Vaill., 

 " Bot.," t. ii. f. 173 ; Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 42 ; Weinm., 

 " Hym.," p. 423 ; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 189 ; Berk., " Outl.," 

 365, t. i. f. 2; Price, f. 79; Cooke, "Handbk.," 1990; 

 "Mycogr.," t. 286; Pat., p. 71, f. 165 (?). Aleuria 

 cupularis — Gill., " Champ.," p. 39, c. i. Peziza crenata — 

 Bull., t. 396, f. 3. Peziza vulcanalis — Peck, in Haydn's 

 " Geol. Report," 1872. Pustularia cupularis — Fckl., 

 " Symb. Myco.," p. 328. 



Exs.— Rehm., "Asco.," 8; Fckl., " F. Rh.," 1878: 

 Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 155. 



On the earth in damp places. Spring and autumn. 



Sometimes yellowish ; stem J of an inch high, J of 



