PEZIZA. 



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This species was for many } T ears included as British 

 on the authority of Dickson, but a specimen now exists 

 in the herbarium of the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, figured by 

 Dr. Cooke in " Mycogr." 



Name — Rapulum, a little turnip ; from the shape, 

 especially of the stem. 



Subgenus III. — Otidea. Pers. 



Cup subsessile, externally pruinose, dimidiately elon- 

 gated, or obliquely contorted, becoming incised on the 

 one side. (Plate III. fig. 13.) 



Name — wtiov, a little ear ; shaped like an ear. 



Akrangement of the Species. 



3. 



A. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC, ASPERATE. 



11. Peziza pleurota. Phil. 



Cup sessile, expanded, nearly cochleate, umber-brown 

 paler externally, elongated on one side ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, asperate, 15 X 8/m ; paraphyses linear 

 septate, apices clavate, brown. (Plate III., fig. 13.) 



Peziza pleurota — Phil, in Cooke's " Mycogr.," fig. 351. 



On cow-dung. Autumn. 



Cup \\ inch wide, elongated on one side, divided 

 nearly to the base on the shorter side ; sporidia rough, 

 with a central nucleus. 



Name — irXavpov, a side, ovg, an ear. 



Near Shrewsbury ! 



