peziza ST 



Cups h to 1 line broad. 



Name — Con, together, stella, a star; like groups of 

 stars. 



Wrotham (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Doward Rocks, 

 Herefordshire ! (Mr. Spencer Perceval). Cram's Hill, 

 Glamis, N.B. ! (Rev. J. Stevenson). Near Hereford ! 



63. Peziza Polytrichi. Schuni. 



Cup subsessile, orbicular, a little concave, cinnabarine; 

 externally paler, clothed with fasciculate flocci ; asci 

 cylindrical; sporidia 8, globose, smooth, 11 — ISju ; para- 

 physes filiform, filled with orange-red granules. 



Peziza Polytrichi— Schum., " Saell.," p. 423 ; " Flo. 

 Dan.," t. 1916, f. 1 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. 70 (non 

 Karsten nee Nylander) ; Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 50. 

 Peziza levbcoloma — Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," 63(?). Aleuria 

 r polytriehi — Gill., " Champ.," p. 50. 



On the ground amongst Polytrichum. Summer and 

 autumn. 



Cup 1J to 3 lines broad. 



Name — Polytrichum, a genus of mosses ; from the 

 habitat. 



On Tortula rigida, on a wall, Buckingham ! (Mr. E. 

 M. Holmes). 



(/3) Hymenium red, becoming brown. 



64. Peziza schizospora. Phil. 



Cups gregarious, sessile, urceolate, then applanate, 

 red, becoming brown, externally pruinose ; asci cylindri- 

 cal ; sporidia 8, globose, guttulate, smooth, 12^u ; para- 

 physes filiform, summits clavate, filled with red granules. 



Peziza schizospora — Phil, in " Grevillea," iii. fig. 59 ; 

 Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 80. 



On burnt sandy soil. Autumn. 



Cup 2 to 3 lines broad. The nucleus of the sporidia 

 becomes free when the epispore is ruptured. The external 

 cells of the cup differ from those of P. hinnulea (B. and 

 Br.), and it has not any short hairs as that species has. 



