48 DISCOMYCETES. 



an inch thick, sometimes obsolete ; pileus pale buff, 

 thin, transparent, scalloped at the edge, shaped like the 

 cup of an acorn, about 1 inch in diameter (Withering). 



Name — Cupula, a little cup. 



Shrubbery, in mossy turf, Edgbaston (Withering) ; 

 Apethorpe, Milton (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Caistor (Hen- 

 derson). Bowood, Wiltshire (Mr. Currey). Salhouse, 

 Norfolk (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Taverham, Norfolk (Mr. 

 C. B. Plowright). Brockley Comb, near Bristol (Mr. C. 

 Bucknall). Wrekin! Kingsland, Shrewsbury! Hereford! 



6. Peziza carnea (no v. sp.). Cooke and Phil. 



Cup cyathiform, rather thin, firm, glabrous, flesh- 

 coloured, margin crenate, erect ; stem rather long, 

 slender, expanding into the decurrently wrinkled base 

 of the cup ; asci cjdindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 

 13 X Qfx; paraphyses filiform, curved at the summit. 



Peziza cupularis — L. var. in Herb. Berk., Milton. 



Cup from 5 to 10 lines broad ; stem from 3 to 6 lines 

 high, and about 1 line thick. 



Name — Caro, flesh ; flesh-coloured. 



7. Peziza muralis. Sow. 



Cup at first cyathiform, then expanded, nearly plane, 

 firm, fleshy in the centre, thin towards the margin, 

 glabrous, dirty brownish- white ; stem short, rather slender; 

 asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 14? X 8ju ; 

 paraphyses filiform. 



Peziza muralis — Sow., " Fung.," t. 251. 



On clay. 



Cup from 2 to 7 lines across, nearly uniform in colour 

 within and without, glabrous ; stem about 1 to 1 J lines 

 long, enlarging upwards into the thick fleshy base of the 

 cup. 



" The larger ones herein figured were sent by favour 

 of the Rev. Mr. Alderson, from some clay walls in his 

 garden at Havingham, Norfolk ; the smaller ones grew 

 on some pipe-clay intended for modelling at my own 

 home, Mead Place. They differ much in size, but agree 



