PEZIZA. 79 



slightly elevated and curved inwards ; disc honey-coloured 

 or cream-coloured, externally darker. 



Name — Mel, honey ; from the colour. 



King's Lynn (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



50. Peziza unclata. Smith. 



Cup medium size, stipitate, rooting, fleshy ; hyme- 

 nium slightly concave, afterwards expanded, then re- 

 flexed, generally corrugated, yellowish, buff, grey, purple, 

 or pallid ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 

 10 X ofi ; paraphyses stout, enlarged upwards. 



Peziza unclata — Smith in " Grevillea," i. p. 136, t. 10, 

 figs. 1, 2 ; " Grevillea/' iii. fig. 44 ; Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 

 279. 



On stems of tree ferns. May. 



Cup \ to | of an inch broad. 



Name — Unda, a wave; waved. 



Veitch's Nursery, Chelsea (Mr. W. G. Smith). 



51. Peziza sepiatr a. Cooke. 



Cups sessile or substipitate, gregarious, hemispherical, 

 soon expanded, becoming applanate ; hymenium plane, 

 umbilicate, blackish-brown, margins lightly elevated ; 

 externally umber-brown, subfurfuraceous ; asci cylin- 

 drical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 20 — 22 X 11/x; para- 

 physes clavate at the apices. 



Peziza sepiatra — Cooke in "Grevillea," iii. 119, fig. 

 135 ; " Mycogr.," fig. 261. 



Exs.— Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," 184; Phil., « Elv. Brit," 

 105. 



On the ground in damp, shady places ; on road- 

 scrapings, etc. Spring. 



Cup J an inch broad, often less, rather brittle. The 

 margin is minutely crenulated, incurved, and paler than 

 the disc. The cells forming the exterior of the cup are 

 30/x diameter. 



Name — Sepia, a pigment, aier, black ; brownish black. 



Shelton Rough, Shrewsbury ! Baschurch, Salop ! 

 Henbury Churchyard, near Bristol (Mr. Spencer Perceval). 



