PEZIZA. 73 



Cup \ an inch to 1J inches broad. The flesh is thick 

 and rather firm ; the exterior of the cup coarsely fur- 

 furaceous, dark sooty-brown, but pale towards the 

 subcrenate margin. It is gregarious, and sometimes 

 crespitose. The apices of the paraphyses are filled with 

 brown granules. 



Name — Pustula, sl blister; having convex elevations 

 like blisters. 



Ercall Hill, Salop ! Glamis (Rev. J. Stevenson). 



40. Peziza indiscreta. Phil, and Plow. 



Scattered or crowded, sessile, hemispherical, fleshy ; 

 hymenium concave, blackish-brown ; externally some- 

 what verrncose, umber-brown ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 

 8, elliptic, 1 to 2-guttulate, asperate, 16 — 18x9 — 10/*; 

 paraphyses linear, septate, slightly thickened at the 

 apices. 



Peziza indiscreta — Phil, and Plow., " Grevillea," viii. 

 p. 99. 



On the earth under lime-trees. 



Cup 4 to 7 lines broad. 



Name — Indiscretus, not distinguished, or resembling 

 many others. 



North Wootton, Norfolk ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



C. SPORIDIA, ELLIPTIC, SMOOTH. 



41. Peziza vesiculosa. Bull. 



Cup large, entire, sessile, at first globose, somewhat 

 turbinate, then expanded and campanulate; hymenium 

 pallid-brown; margin connivent, somewhat crenate ; 

 externally furfuraceous ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 elliptic, smooth, 20 — 22x12/*; paraphyses linear, en- 

 larged upwards. 



Peziza vesiadosa — Bull., "Champ.," t. 457, f. 1 • 

 Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. 52; Grev., " Sc. Crypt. Flo./' 

 t. 107; Sow., t. 4; "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 188; Kickx., "Flo. 

 Flan.," 494; Karst., "Myco. Fenn./' p. 52; Cooke, 



