PEZIZA. 77 



"Ann. Sc. i\ T at.," 1836, iii. 244; B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. 

 Hist./' No. 1157, t. 4, f. 18 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 2006 ; 

 " Mycogr.," fig. 78. Aleuria brunneo-atra — Gill, 

 " Champ.," p. 53, c. i. 



Exs.— Desni., " Crypt. Fr.," i. 826, ii. 26. 



On the ground. Spring. 



Name — Brunneus, deep brown, and ater, black. 



Leigh Woods, near Bristol ! (Mr. C. E. Broome and 

 Mr. Spencer Perceval). 



B. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC, SMOOTH. 



46. Peziza purpurascens. Pers. 



Cup sessile, campanulate, then expanded, conically 

 attenuated to the base, livid-purple, glabrous ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elongate-elliptic, biguttulate, 

 smooth, 20 — 22 X 7'5^u ; paraphyses filiform, thickened 

 upwards. 



Peziza purpurascens — Pers., " Myco. Eur.," p. 242, 1. 12, 

 f. 10 ; Fries, " Sys. Mvco.," ii. 65 ; Gonn. and Rabh., 

 " Myco. Eur./' t. 3, f. 3 ; Cooke, " Grevillea," v. p. 60 ; 

 "Mycogr.," fig. 276. Aleuria purpurascens — Gill., 

 " Champ.," p. 48, c. i. 



Exs.— Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," ii. 543. 



On the ground. Autumn. 



Cup i to 1 inch broad. The sporidia are fusiform. 



Name— Purpuracens, inclining to purple. 



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



47. Peziza tectoria. Cooke. 



Cup sessile or substipitate, globose, afterwards ex- 

 panded, applanate; hymenium plane, subumbilicate, pallid- 

 ochraceous ; externally whitish, furfuraceous, becoming- 

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

 18 — 20 X 9 — 10/ul ; paraphyses filiform. 



Peziza tectoria — Cooke in "Grevillea," iii. p. 119: 

 "Mycogr.," fig. 263; Phil., " Trans. Woolhope Club," 

 1876, p. 224, with figure. 



On damp plaster walls. Summer and autumn. 



