94 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



compared with the tomentose species of Sarcoscypha 

 (Cooke). 



Name — Pilus, hair, fera, to bear ; clothed with hairs. 



Whitfield, Herefordshire ! 



76. Peziza maurilabra. Cooke. 



Cup sessile, fleshy, concave, margin becoming crisped, 

 crenulate; externally blackish-brown, rivulose; hymenium 

 flesh-red or almost orange; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, 

 elliptic, biguttulate, smooth, 17 — 20 X 7 — 9/j. ; paraphyses 

 clavate, orange, sometimes forked. 



Peziza rnaurildbra — Cooke, " Grevillea," vi. 64 ; 

 "Mycogr.," fig. 388. Peziza rivulosa — Quelet, in litt. 

 Aleuria maurilabra — Gill., "Champ.," p. 54, c. i. 



On chips and on the ground. 



Cup 1 to 2J lines broad. 



This somewhat resembles P. melaloma (A. and S.), 

 but the external cells and margin are distinctly different 

 (Cooke). 



The crenulations of the margin are produced by 

 projecting bundles of brown, adherent, septate, hair-like 

 cells. 



Name — Maurus, a Moor, labrum, a lip ; black-lipped. 



Crane's Hill, Glamis, N.B. (Rev. J. Stevenson). 



77. Peziza gramdata. Bull. 



Cups sessile, scattered or crowded, at first spherical, 

 then expanded, ultimately almost plane, margin thick ; 

 hymenium orange-red; externally fulvous orange, coarsely 

 granular ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 

 20 x 10/x; paraphyses linear, apices clavate, filled with 

 orange-red granules. 



Peziza granulata — Bull., " Champ.," p. 258, t. 438, 

 fig. 3 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. 67 ; Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," 

 p. 47 ; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 190. Cooke, " Hanclbk.," 2005 ; 

 " Mycogr.," fig. 59. Peziza scabra — "Flo. Dan.," t. 655. 

 f. 2. Ascobolus granulatus — Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," 287, 

 Aleuria granulata — Gill., " Champ.," p. 56. 



Exs.— Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," i. 270; Eabh., "Fung. Eur." 



