PEZIZA. 91 



(6) Epispore smooth. 



(o) Hymenium some shade of red. 



70. Peziza microcystis. Cooke. 



Cups sessile, gregarious or scattered, cup-shaped, at 

 length applanate ; hymenium concave, orange-red ; margin 

 entire, elevated ; externally brown, glabrous, or slightly 

 granulose ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, oblongo-elliptic, 

 biguttulate, smooth, 20 X 9/x ; paraphyses clavate apices, 

 filled with orange granules. 



Peziza macrocystis — Cooke in "Mycogr.," fig. 63. 

 Peziza subhirsuta, var. macrocystis — Cooke in " Gre- 

 villea" i. 129. 



Exs.— Phil., "Elv. Brit.," 59; Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," 

 ed. ii. 651. 



On burnt ground. Autumn. 



Cup 1 to 2 lines broad. 



The external cells of the cup are very large. It is 

 otherwise very near P. subhirsuta. 



Name — /maicpoQ, large, kvotiq, a bladder; from the 

 large cells of the receptacle. 



Ercall Hill, Wellington, Salop ! 



71. Peziza leucoloma. Hedw. 



Cups sessile, scattered, concave, then plane, red ; margin 

 minutely fimbriate with white flocci ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, biguttulate, smooth, 18 — 20 X 9 — lQfx ; 

 paraphyses clavate at the apices. 



Peziza leucoloma — Hedw., " Mus. Frond.," t. 4, fig. A ; 

 Rebent., p. 386 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. 71 ; " Eng. Flo.," 

 v. p. 191 ; B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist," No. 1156*, t. 

 3, £ 16, No. 768 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," 2000 ; " Grevillea," 

 iii. fig. 72 ; " Mycogr.," fig. 28. Leucoloma Hedivigii — 

 Fckl., "Symb. Myco.," 317. Aleuria leucoloma — Gill., 

 " Champ.," p. 56. 



Exs.— Fckl., " F. Rh.," 1219. 



On the ground amongst moss. Autumn. 



Cup 1 to ltj lines broad. 



