92 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Name — Xtujcoe, white, Xw/za, a border ; white-margined. 



Northamptonshire (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Near 

 Bristol (Mr. H. O. Stephens). Shere, Surrey (Dr. Capron). 

 Bathford, near Bath (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



72. Peziza humosa. Fries. 



Cup sessile, fleshy, between concave and plane, 

 glabrous, blood-red ; margin entire ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, broadly elliptic, smooth, 22 — 24 x 10 — 12/* ; 

 paraphyses somewhat branched, apices clavate. 



Peziza humosa — Fries, " Obs. Myco," p. 309 ; Fries, 

 "Sys. Myco.," ii. 71; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 191; Cooke, 

 " Handbk.," 2001 ; " Grevillea," iii. fig. 71 (not Fckl., " F. 

 Rh," 2290); B. and Br, "Ann. Nat. Hist.," 1156*, t. 3, 

 f. 15 ; Cooke, "Mycogr," fig. 25. Aleuria humosa — Gill, 

 " Champ," p. 56, c. i. 



Exs.— Cooke, " Fung. Brit," i. 475 ; Rabh, " Fung. 

 Eur," 715. 



On the naked ground. Autumn. 



Cup 1 to 2 lines broad. 



Name — Humus, moist earth ; from the habitat. 



Bo wood; Hanham; Ascot; Shere (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 

 Near Hereford (Dr. M. C. Cooke). King's Lynn (Mr. C. 

 B. Plowright). Glamis ! (Rev. J. Stevenson). Epping 

 (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Pulborough! (Mr. Spencer Perceval). 



73. Peziza Sowerbei. Cooke. 



Cups substipitate, scattered, orange-red, externally 

 paler, sub-fibrillose ; stem short, attenuated downwards ; 

 asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 8 — 9 X 4/x 

 paraphyses (?). 



Peziza araneosa — Sow, "Fung," t. 365, fig. 5; 

 " Grevillea," iii. fig. 64 ; Cooke, " Mycogr," fig. 55. 



Exs.— Rabh, " Fung. Eur," 30. 



On bark and wood amongst moss. 



Cups 2J lines broad. 



Name — After Jas. Sowerby. 



Batheaston (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



