80 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Forres, N.B. (Rev. Dr. Keith). Epping and Highgate 

 (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



52. Peziza subrepanda. Cooke and Phil. 



Cups scattered or gregarious, patelliform, fleshy, pale 

 buff ; externally paler, farinaceous ; margin dentate ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 20 X 9^ ; para- 

 physes filiform, scarcely thickened above. 



Peziza subrepanda — Cooke and Phil., " Mycogr.," fig. 

 260. 



On the ground, charcoal beds, etc. 



Cup scarcely J an inch broad, very neat and delicate, 

 pale fleshy tan colour, with a regular dentate margin. 



Name — Sub and repand, bent back ; somewhat bent 

 back. 



Near Shrewsbury ! wood near Ludlow ! 



53. Peziza sterigmatizans. Phil. 



Cup sessile, concave, becoming expanded and repand, 

 variously contorted, black-brown ; margin crenulated ; 

 asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 18 X 9/u ; 

 paraphyses stout, septate, apices clavate, forked, shortly 

 branched, hyaline. 



Peziza sterigmatizans — Phil., Cooke's " Mycogr.," fig. 

 304. 



On damp ground. Autumn. 



Cup scarcely an inch broad ; paraphyses thick, sep- 

 tate, clavate at the tips, either furcate above, or with 

 short lateral branches or bud-like processes. 



Name — GTijpiyiua, a support; the paraphyses being 

 like sterigmata. 



On the side of a damp ditch, Shrewsbury ! 



54. Peziza cribrosa. Grev. 



Cup solitary, black, concave, attenuated downward, 

 rugulose ; hymenium full of lacerated irregular pores ; 

 margin entire ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 hyaline, smooth, 20 x 8 — 9/i ; paraphyses septate, clavate 

 apices. 



