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2 JCups large, csespitose, externally pruinose . . . . aurantia. 



' \Cups small, solitary, externally smooth . . . . luteo-niteus. 



o J Hymenium orange-red ; cup sessile . . . . . . leuculenta. 



' \Hymeuium bright yellow ; cup substipitate . . var. flavida. 



. JSporidia rough . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 



' \Sporidia smooth . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 



,- jHymenium alutaceous, paraphyses linear . . . . alutacea. 



' iHymenium dark umber-brown paraphyses linear . . badia. 



Hymenium pale ochraceous ; paraphyses linear, forked ochracea. 

 fi I Hymenium umber-brown ; paraphyses linear, forked 



" ) or branched . . . . . . . . . . . . cocldeata. 



Hymenium umber ; paraphyses clavate . . 7 



["Hymenium pale ochraceous, sessile ; on linen cloth. . liuteicola. 



„ JHvmenium pale ochraceous, substipitate; on wood . . viicropus. 

 ' j Hymenium brownish yellow, with a shade of red; on 



( wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . isabellina. 



A. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC ASPERATE. 



17. Peziza aurantia. (Ed. 



Cup subsessile, irregular, oblique ; hymenium orange, 

 externally somewhat pruinose, whitish ; asci cylindrical : 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, biguttulate, asperate, 16 x 8/x ; para- 

 physes clavate at the summits, full of orange granules. 

 (Plate III. fig. 14.) 



Peziza aurantia — " Flo. Dan.," t. 657, f. 2 ; Pers., 

 " Obs.," 2, p. 76 ; Nees, " Sys.," f. 279 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," 

 ii. 49; "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 187; Huss., i. t. 37; Berk., 

 "Outl," p. 363; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 1975; "Brit. 

 Fung.," t. 1 ; Price, £ 42 ; Weberb., t. 1, f. 1, t. 2, f. 3 ; 

 Gonn. and Rabh, t. 1, f. 3 ; "Flo. Boruss," t. 384; Seer., 

 "Mycogr." iii. 294; Karst., "Myco. Fenn," 43; Weinm. 

 p. 414; Pat., p. 123, f. 278. Peziza aurantiaca — Harzer. 

 t. 72, b. Peziza cochleata — Batsch, f. 157. Peziza, 

 coccinea—Schzvff., " Icon.," t. 148 ; Bull., " Champ.," t. 474; 

 Sow , " Fung.," t. 78. Helvetia coccinea — Bolt., t. 100. 

 Peziza dichroa — Holms., " Ot.," ii. t. 7. Aleuria oMrantia 

 — Fckl., "Symb. Myco.," 325; Sacc, "Myco. Ven. Sp." 

 167; Gill, " Champ," p. 41, c. i. 



Exs.— Fckl, "F. EL," 1228; Desm, "Crypt. Fr," i. 

 521 ; Karst., " Fung. Fenn.," 142 ; Rabh., " Herb. Myco.," i. 

 523; Phil, "Elv. Brit.," 12; Ellis, « N. A. Fungi?' 836 ; 

 Roumg., " Fung. Gal," 2769. 



