54 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Weybridge (Mr. F. Currey). Carlisle (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 

 Newbiggin Quarry, Carlisle ! (Dr. Carlyle). Castle 

 Rising, Norfolk ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Abbots Leigh, 

 near Bristol (Mr. C. Bucknall). Wrekin, Salop ! Tibber- 

 ton, Salop ! Boreatton Park, Salop ! General Cemetery, 

 Shrewsbury ! Kingsland, Shrewsbury ! Dolgelly, North 

 Wales ! 



14. Peziza auricula. Cooke. 



Subcrespitose, fleshy, elongated on one side, ear-shaped, 

 flesh -red, externally farinose ; asci cylindrical, stipitate ; 

 sporidia elliptic, smooth, 22 — 28 X 12 — 14/* ; paraphyses 

 cJavate at the summits (Cooke). 



Peziza auricula — Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 213 ; Schaeff, 

 "Icon.," t. 156 (in part). Peziza leporina — Rabh., " Fung. 

 Eur.," No. 512 ; Nyl., " Pez. Fenn.," p. 9 ; Karst., " Mon. 

 Pez.," p. 111. Aleuria auricula — Gill., " Champ.," p. 40. 



Exs.— Cooke, "Fung. Brit," No. 473; Rabh, "Fung. 

 Eur," 512 ; Rehm, "Asco.," 652. 



Cup 1 to 2 inches broad and high. Resembling P. 

 ovotica in habit, but different in colour and fruit 

 (Cooke, I. a). 



Name — Auricula, the ear; from its shape. 



Ross, Herefordshire ! 



15. Peziza apophysata. Cooke and Phil. 



Cup sessile, unequal, lobed, subcontorted, elongated 

 on one side, externally umber-brown; hymenium blackish- 

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

 2-guttulate, smooth, 20 — 22 X 12ju; paraphyses slender, 

 forked near the summits, subclavate. 



Peziza apophysata — Cooke and Phil, in " Grevillea " 

 (1876), v. p. 60 ; Cooke, " Mycogr," fig. 350. 



On the side of a wet ditch. Autumn. 



Cup J to 1 inch broad, csespitose or gregarious, 

 irregular in form, margin indented, erect ; paraphyses 

 branched in a peculiar manner. 



Name — airotyvaig, an offshoot; from the branching 

 paraphyses. 



Near Shrewsbury ! 



