60 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Cup scarcely an inch broad, very much resembling 

 P. fibrillosa (Currey), but with decidedly different fruit. 

 Name — Leucidentus, clear ; from the colour. 

 Near Sheffield (Mr. H. C. Sorby, F.R.S.). 



21. Peziza fibrillosa. Curr. 



Cup nearly sessile, irregular, orange, clothed ex- 

 ternally with dingy-white downy fibrillse, which form a 

 rather dense tomentose edging to the cup ; asci cylin- 

 drical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, eguttulate, 16 — 18 X 9/.* ; 

 paraphyses filiform, globoso-clavate. 



Peziza fibrillosa — Curr. in "Linn. Trans.," xxiv. 

 p. 153 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 1977 ; " Mycogr.," fig. 207. 



On the ground. October. 



Cup 1 inch broad, often divided on one side ; when 

 young the margin is involute, afterwards erect ; the 

 exterior is very tomentose, nearly white. It resembles 

 P. aurantia, but differs in having smooth sporidia and 

 paraphyses with globose summits. 



Name — Fibra, a fibre ; clothed with downy fibrillge. 



Hanham Wood ! (Mr. F. Currey). King's Lynn ! 

 (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



22. Peziza cochleata. Ball. 



Cup sessile, csespitose, large, twisted, umber, ex- 

 ternally pruinose ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 smooth, biguttulate, 16 — 19 X 7 — 8/z ; paraphyses filiform, 

 often branched and curved at the summits. 



Peziza cochleata — Bull., "Champ.," t. 154, f. 2; Sow., 

 " Fung.," t. 5 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. 50 ; Gonn. and 

 Rabh, t. 2, f. 5 ; Seer., " Mycogr.," iii. 296 ; "■ Eng. Flo.," 

 v. p. 188; Berk, " Outl.," p. 363: Cooke, "Handbk," 

 No. 1971 ; " Micogr," fig. 212 ; Weinm, " Hym," p. 416 ; 

 Roumg, " Crypt. Illus," t. 265 ; Berk, Garcl. Chron., 

 1867. Aleuria cochleata — Gill, "Champ," p. 42, c. i. 

 Fungoides fuscum — Buxb, "Petr,"iv. t. 29, f. 1. Peziza 

 umbrina— Pers, " Obs," i. 77 ; Sv, " Bot," t. 486 ; f. 2. 

 Elvela ochroleuca — Schseff, " Icon," t. 274. Otidea 



