62 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Cup 2 to 3 inches broad, 1J inches high, sack-shaped ; 

 margin entire, bat occasionally divided to the base on 

 one side ; externally dark olive green ; hymenium dull 

 ochery brown ; the mycelium ferruginous. Very distinct 

 from P. leporina. 



Name — From grandis, large. 



Heywood Forest, near Hereford ! (Mr. C. B. Plo wright). 



25. Peziza ochracea. Boud. 



Cup sessile, caespitose, entire, subflexuous, bright 

 ochraceous, externally furfuraceous ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, biguttulate, hyaline, smooth ; 

 22 — 24 X 12/*; paraphyses linear, often divided at the 

 summits into two or three short obtuse processes. 



Peziza ochracea — Boud. in Herb.; Cooke, "Mycogr.," 

 fig. 377; Pat., p. 170, f. 374. Aleuria ochracea — Gill., 

 " Champ.," p. 41, c. i. 



On the ground in beech woods. Spring. 



Cup 1 to 2 inches broad, fleshy at the base, densely 

 caespitose ; hymenium wrinkled ; exterior coarsely fur- 

 furaceous. The paraphyses are septate, and often branched 

 at the top into two or three short processes. 



Name — Ochra, ochre ; the colour of yellow ochre. 



The Wrekin, Salop ! 



26. Peziza A dee. Sadler. 



Cup sessile, subesespitose, cochleate, irregular, be- 

 coming expanded ; margin entire or lobed, reflexed ; 

 hymenium white, rosy white, violaceous, or ochraceus ; 

 asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, biguttulate, smooth, 

 13 X 7/x ; paraplryses linear. 



Peziza Adce — Sadler ; Cooke, " Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin.," 

 1857, p. 45 (with figure) ; " Grevillea," vi. t. 97, figs. 1-3. 

 Peziza domiciliana — Cooke in Gard. Chron., 1877. 



Exs.— Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," ed. ii. 649 ; Phil, " Elv. 

 Brit.," No. 154. 



On damp walls, etc. 



Cup \ an inch to 2 inches broad ; disc variable in 

 form and colour, but always thin and delicate. 



