70 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Key to the Species. 



Hymenium violet-brown ; juice violet . . .. .. saniosa. 



Hymenium wax-brown ; juice turning yellow , . suocosa. 



36. Peziza succosa. Berk. 



Cap medium size, fleshy, sessile, hemispherical, pale 

 wax-brown; externally paler, pruinose; margin indexed; 

 juice bright yellow; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 biguttulate, asperate, 20 X 11 — 12/* ; paraphyses linear, 

 thickened upwards. (Plate IV. fig. 16.) 



Peziza succosa — Berk., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 156, 

 t. 10, f. 5 ; " Outl.," p. 363 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 1972 ; 

 " Mycogr," fig. 243 ; Kickx., " Crypt. Flan," i. 495 ; Pat., 

 72, f. 166. Aleuria succosa — Gill, "Champ.," p. 45, c. i. 



Exs.— Phil, "Elv. Brit," No. 10; Cooke, "Fung. 

 Brit," ed. ii. 650. 



On the naked ground in damp and shady woods. 

 Autumn. 



Cup 1 inch broad, subglobose, then hemispherical, 

 sometimes cochleate, but generally entire, when moist 

 transparent, pale brown ; exterior mealy or pruinose, 

 dirty white ; the juice is limpid and nearly colourless 

 when it issues from the wound, but soon changes to 

 yellow ; the sporidia are certainly rough when mature. 



Name — Succus, juice. 



King's Cliffe and Apethorpe (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 

 Bristol (Mr. H. O. Stephens). Do i ard Rocks (Mr. 

 Spencer Perceval). Arkol Hill, Salop ! Lilleshall, Salop ! 

 Craven Arms, Salop ! 



37. Peziza saniosa. Schrad. 



Cup sessile, thick, fleshy, campanulate, regular, 

 purplish brown or dark violet ; externally pulverulent, 

 umber-brown or purplish -brown ; juice dark violet, 

 abundant ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, biguttulate, 

 smooth, 15 X 7'o/ul; paraphyses linear. 



Peziza saniosa — Schrad, "Bot. Jour," 1799, ii. p. 64; 

 Fries, " Svs. Myco," ii. 65 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 19.31 ; 

 Berk., " Mag. Zool. and Bot," No, 87, t. 7, f. 2 ; Phil, in 



