PEZ1ZA. G5 



Arrangement of the Species. 



a. Sporidia globose . . . . . . . . species 30-31 



b. Sporidia elliptic, smooth . . . . . . „ 32-35 



Key to the Specles. 



Sporidia spherical, rough . . . . . . . . trarht/carpa. 



Sporidia spherical, smooth .. .. . .. leionarpa. 



Sporidia elliptic . . .. .. .. .. ..1 



fHymeniuru purple ; cup subglobose . . . . . . coronaria. 



iHymenium amber-brown ; cup codtate below . . venom. 

 1. ^Hymeiiium fulvo-rufescent, at length reticulate ; cup 



Bubstipitate .. .. .. .. .. .. reticulata. 



tHymeniuni fulvous ; cup repand, substipitate . . repanda. 



A. SPORIDIA GLOBOSE. 



SO. Peziza trachycarpa. Curr. 



Cup orbicular, then plane, very often umbilicate ; 

 hymenium blackish-brown, rough, tuberculate ; externally 

 granulated j asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, globose, muricate, 

 brown, 12 — lo^u ; paraphyses either filiform with clavate 

 apices, or broad, pallid-brown, resembling empty asci. 

 (Plate III. fig. 15.) 



Peziza trachycarpa — Curr., "Linn. Trans.," xxiv. 

 p. 493, t. 51, figs. 3 and 5; B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," 

 No. 1061, t. xiv. fig. 13; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 1984; 

 " Mycogr.," fig. 257 ; Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 61. Peziza 

 furva — Nyl., " Pez. Fenn.,". p. 15. Alearia trachycarpa 

 —Gill., " Champ.," p. 203, c. i. 



Exs.— Rabh, "Fung. Eur.," 620; Karst. "Fung. 

 Fenn.," 457 ; Phil., " Elv. Brit," 57. 



On burnt ground. Summer and autumn. 



Cup ^ to 1J broad. 



Name — rpaxvg, rough, Kap-rrog, fruit ; from the rough 

 sporidia. 



Ascot ! (Rev. G. H. Sawyer). Norton Camp, near 

 Craven Arms ! Bomere, near Shrewsbury ! Attingham 

 Park, Shrewsbury ! 



31. Peziza leiocarpa. Curr. 



Cup at first connivent, subglobose, externally (prin- 

 cipally towards the margin) rough, vinous-brown, thin, 



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