78 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



At first appearing as a small white furfuraceous ball, 

 seated on a white mycelium, J of an inch broad ; when 

 old becoming irregular, If inches broad, margin split 

 and jagged. 



Name — Tectus, the roof; from its habitat. 



Dwelling-house, Shrewsbury ! Union Workhouse, 

 Shrewsbury ! Herefordshire County Asylum ! (Dr. Chap- 

 man). Edinburgh, on timber in a house that had been 

 burnt down (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Botanical Gardens, Edin- 

 burgh ; and Epping (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Marlborough 

 (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



48. Peziza ampliata. Pers. 



Cup sessile, fleshy, fragile, thin, expanding directly 

 from the base, nearly cinnamon, externally pallid, nearly 

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

 18 X 19/x; paraphyses linear, slightly thickened upwards. 



Peziza ampliata — Pers., " Icon, et Descr.," p. 31, t. 3, 

 f. 4; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. 76; Cooke, "Mycogr.," 

 fig. 384. Aleuria ampliata — Gill, " Champ.," p. 47. 



On rotting wood and bark of oak, poplar, etc. 

 Autumn and winter. 



Cup J an inch to 1 inch or more broad. 



Name — Amp>lio y to enlarge ; widened out. 



Near Hereford ! Guildford ! (Mr. Thomas Howse). 

 Cawdor Castle, N.B. ! Hanham Woods, near Bristol ; 

 Kew Gardens (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



49. Peziza mellea. Cooke and Plow. 



Cup solitary, sessile, hemispherical, glabrous, be- 

 coming applanate, ochraceous ; margin incurved ; hyme- 

 nium honey-coloured ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 smooth, 20 X 11/i ; paraphyses slightly clavate at the 

 apices. 



Peziza mellea — Cooke and Plow., " Grevillea," v. 119 ; 

 Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 383. 



On decaying ash. 



Cup about 6 lines broad ; the margin of the cups 



