VEZIZA. 45 



Name — Acetabulum, vinegar cup; shaped like a cup. 



Sand Hutton, Yorkshire (Rev. M. Bud stone). King's 

 Cliffe, Northamptonshire ; Kingerswell, Devonshire (Rev. 

 M. J. Berkeley). Pitlochrie and Cluny, N.B. (D. 

 Thomson). Wiltshire (Mr. C. E. Broome). Hitchin 

 (Professor Henslow). White Notley (Mr. A. Irvine). 

 Ashton Court, Bristol (Mr. C. Bucknall). Framingham 

 Earl ; Sprowston ; Castle Rising, Norfolk ! (Mr. C. B. 

 Plowright). General Cemetery, Shrewsbury ! near 

 Ludlow (Miss Price). 



2. Peziza insolita. Cooke. 



Stipitate, fleshy, fragile, whitish, clavate, then pyriform, 

 becoming cyathiform ; stem thick, attenuated below ; 

 hymenium ochery-white ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 elliptic, hyaline, 22 — 25 X 10 — 12/x ; paraphyses filiform, 

 short, septate. 



Peziza insolita — Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 375. 



On decayed leaves amongst mould in a fig-house. 

 December. 



Cup 1 inch high, J an inch or more in diameter; 

 cells of cups 12 X 10fi ; the paraphyses shorter than the 

 asci. A white mycelium runs amongst the leaves on 

 which it grows (Cooke). 



Name — Insolita, unusual. 



Castle Gardens, N.B. (Rev. J. Stevenson). Kelvedon, 

 Essex (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



3. Peziza Percevali. Berk, and Cooke. 



Solitary ; cup at length expanded, somewhat pruinose. 

 the margin closely inflexed ; stem somewhat thick, sub- 

 attenuated below, with slender rooting fibrils ; asci 

 clavato - cylindrical ; sporidia elliptic (?); paraphyses 

 thickened above, brownish. 



Peziza Percevali. — Berk, and Cooke, "Mycogr.," fig. 

 192. Peziza ciborium — Fries, "Sys. Myco." ii. 59 (partly), 

 var. major ; B. and Br. in "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1479; 

 " Grevillea," iii. p. 119. 



On the ground. 



