90 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Peziza Ghateri — W. G. Smith in Gard. Chron., 1872, 

 p. 9, with figure; "Jour. Bot.," 1872, p. 86; "Grevillea," 

 i. p. 120, t. 8, figs. 1, 2, vol. iii. fig. 68; "Mycogr.," 

 fig. 62. 



Exs.— Rabh., "Fung. Eur.," 1517. 



On the ground. 



Cup 2 to 6 lines broad, composed of clavate, pale 

 brown, septate cells, whose tips give a granulated ap- 

 pearance to the outer surface, which is without hairs 

 (Smith, I. a). 



Name — After Mr. J. J. Chater. 



On road-earth, Cambridge (Mr. J. J. Chater). Whit- 

 cliffe Bay, Isle of Wight ! (Mr. T. Howse). 



(S) Hymenium vinous-black. 



69. Peziza Phillipsii. Cooke. 



Cups sessile, scattered, fleshy, cupulate, afterwards 

 expanded, externally fuliginous, rough with granules ; 

 hymenium vinous-black, plane ; margin sometimes crenu- 

 late ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, attenuated at 

 each end, verrucose, 25 X 11/x; paraphyses septate, apices 

 clavate, purple. 



Peziza Phillipsii — Cooke in " Mycogr./' fig. 88. 

 Ascobolus amethystinus — Phil, (in part), " Grevillea," iv. 

 p. 84. 



On damp sandy ground. October. 



Cup 2 to 4 lines broad. Found mixed with Asco- 

 bolus amethystinus (Phil.). It differs from that species 

 in the deeper vinous disc ; in the intense amethystine 

 colour of the gelatina-hymenia ; the cylindrical and 

 longer indehiscent asci ; larger and more fusiform sporidia, 

 which are more coarsely war ted, and never coloured ; in 

 the shorter paraphyses, and other points, so that there 

 is not the slightest ground for the supposition that one 

 is any form or condition of the other, except in their 

 growing together (Cooke, I. c). 



Name — After W. Phillips. 



Near Shrewsbury ! 



