PEZIZA. 85 



On the earth amongst mosses, and on the tops of 

 walls. Spring and autumn. 



Cup 3 to 5 lines broad. 



Name — After M. Crouan. 



Slate quarry, Wivelscombe ; Ilford, Essex (Rev. M. 

 J. Berkeley). Ascot (Mr. C. E. Broome). Shere, Surrey ; 

 Chichester; Exeter (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Clifton, near 

 Bristol ! (Mr. C. Bucknall). Garden wall, Shrewsbury ! 

 Hampstead Canal, near Birmingham (Mr. W. B. Grove). 



59. Peziza Icetirubra. Cooke. 



Cups gregarious, sessile, concave, becoming applanate, 

 entire, glabrous, marginate, cinnabarine, colour unchange- 

 able ; asci cylindrical, stipitate ; sporidia 8, globose, 

 guttulate, hyaline, epispore reticulated, 16 — 18/u ; para- 

 physes filiform, filled with orange granules. 



Peziza Icetirubra — Cooke in " Grevillea," iii. f. 56 ; 

 " Mycogr.," f. 20. Crouania cinnabarina — Fckl., "Symb. 

 My a," App. ii. 64? (non Peziza cinnabarina — Schw.). 



On sandy soil. 



Cup J to 1 line broad ; epispore very faintly re- 

 ticulated. 



Name — Lcetus, bright or cheerful, ruber, red ; bright 



red. 



Wootton Heath, near King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plow- 

 right). 



(b) Epispore spinulose. 



60. Peziza asperior. Nyl. 



Scattered, vermilion-tawny, applanate ; externally 

 covered with short brown hairs; asci cylindrical; sporidia 

 8, spherical or subspherical, epispore rough with papillae, 

 20 — 22/1 ; paraphyses slightly clavate at the apices. 



Peziza asperior — Nyl., " Pez. Fenn.," p. 21 ; Karst., 

 "Mon. Pez.," 128; " Myco. Fenn.," p. 75 (ex. syn.) ; 

 " Grevillea," iii. f. 216 ; Cooke, " Mycogr.," f. 51 ; Grove's 

 . " Jour. Bot," 1885, p. 133. 



Exs.— Behm, " Asco.," No. 3. 



