84 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



'Paraphyses clavate, branched ; exterior of cup dark 



brown . . . . . . . . . . ~ . . lechetJiina. 



, , Paraphyses linear, not branched : exterior of cup 



" ' pale ochre . . . . . . . . . . . . semi-immersa. 



Paraphyses linear, not branched; exterior of cup 



k orange*yellow . . . . . . . . . . glumarum. 



I Margin of cup dentate ; paraphyses clavate, brown hepatica. 



Margin of cup granular ; paraphyses linear . . cervaria. 



Margin of cup glabrous . . . . . . 13 



(Paraphyses much branched ; cells of cup very small misturse. 



Paraphyses not branched, clavate, dirty yellow . . Oocardii. 



Paraphyses not branched, clavate, brown . . . . depressa. 



Paraphyses absent ; cells of cup very large. . . . bovina. 



(Paraphyses linear, curved; cups hemispherical, 



scattered . . . . . . . . . . . . coralb'na. 



Paraphyses linear, curved ; cups turbinate, crowded Roumegueri. 



Paraphyses clavate . . . . . . . . 15 



I Externally slightly granulose . . . . . . carbonigena. 



Externally tomentose . . . . . . . . fusispora. 



Pubescent towards the margin . . . . . . ollaris. 



A. SPORIDIA GLOBOSE. 



(a) Epispore reticulate. 



58. Peziza Grouani. Cooke. 



Cup scarlet, fleshy, glabrous, urceolate, becoming 

 hemispherical ; hymenium applanate ; margin membra- 

 naceous, reflexed, whitish ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 globose, reticulated, 16 — 18^t; paraphyses filiform, simple 

 or forked, thickened towards the apices. (Plate IV. 



%- 19 -). 



Peziza Grouani — Cooke in " Grevillea," iii. fig. 61 ; 

 " Mycogr.," fig. 17. Peziza Polytricki — Karst., "Mvco. 

 Fenn.," p. 62; Nyl., " Pez. Fenn.," p. 22. Ascobolus 

 Grouani — Cooke, " Jour. Bot.," 1864, f. 3 ; B. and Br., 

 "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1085, t. 16, f. 26; Cooke, 

 " Handbk.," No. 2198. Lamprospora miniata — De Not., 

 " Disc," p. 34. Ascobolus miniatus — Crouan, " Ann. 

 Sc. Nat.," 1858, x. p. 197, t. 13, f. 44-47 (non Preuss) ; 

 Currey "Linn. Trans.," xxiv. p. 495, t. 51, fig. 19. 

 Grouani miniata — Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 320; Pat, 

 p. 39, f. 96. Aleuria Grouani — Gill., " Champ.," p. 50, c. i. 



Exs.— Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," 285, ii. 192 ; Fckl, " F. 

 Rh.," 1853; Rabh., "Fung. Eur.," 658 and 1624. 



