PEZIZA. G9 



This appearance is very deceptive in nucleated sporidia, 

 and is not confined to the present species, as we have 

 observed the same thing in Peziza Sumncr'unia, after it 

 has been for some time dried " (Dr. Cooke in " Mycogr."). 



Name — Corona, a crown ; from the shape. 



Chichester, Sussex (Dr. Paxton). Street, Somerset 

 (Mr. W. G. Smith). King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 

 Woodchester, near Stroud ! 



35. Peziza venosa. Pers. 



Cup sessile or substipitate, umber-brown ; externally 

 whitish, rugose with costate veins ; base produced into a 

 very short stem ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 smooth, granular within, 18 — 23 X 10 — 12/*; paraphyses 

 copious, clavate at the summit, brown. 



Peziza venosa — Pers., " Myco. Eur.," p. 220 ; Fries, 

 " Sys. Myco," ii. 46 ; Weberb, t. 2, f. 1 (?) ; Cooke, 

 "Myco," fig. 228. Elvela cochleata — WiefF. in Jacq, 

 " Misc. Austr," ii. t. 17, f. 1. Peziza ancilis — Rehm, 

 "Asco," No. 402; Cooke, "Myco," f. 372. Aleuria 

 venosa — Gill, " Champ," p. 37, c. i. 



Exs.— Cooke, "Fung. Brit," No. 557; Rehm, "Asco," 

 No. 402. 



On the ground. Spring. Esculent. 



Cup 1 to 2 inches broad or more, nearly as high. 

 The strong nitrous odour of this species is very charac- 

 teristic. 



Name — Vena, a vein; from the veined hymenium. 



King's ClifFe, Sibbertoft, Apethorpe (Rev. M. J. 

 Berkeley). Warwick (Mr. Spencer Perceval). Shelton 

 Rough, near Shrewsbury ! Hospital Field, Lynn (Mr. C. 

 B. Plowright). Bristol ! (Mr. Green). Ingham, Norfolk 

 (Rev. K. Trimmer). 



Subgenus VI. — Galacttnia. Cooke. 



Cup sessile, entire, fleshy, exuding, when cut or 

 wounded, a milky juice. (Plate IV. fig. 16.) 

 Name — yaXeWTvoc, milky. 

 Two British species. 



