PEZIZA. 95 



724 ; Phil., " Elv. Brit," 16 ; Karat., " Fung. Fenn," 255 ; 

 Fckl, "F. Rh„" 1876; Thum, " Mycoth. Univ.," 123; 

 Rav, " Fung. Am," 630 ; Cooke, "Fung. Brit," ed. ii. 648. 



On cow-dung. Autumn and winter. 



Cup 1 to 2 lines or more broad. 



This is one of our commonest species, which by its 

 habitat and granular exterior is easily recognized. 



Name — Uranus, a grain ; from its granulated exterior. 



Universally distributed. 



(j3) Hymenium ochraceous. 

 78. Peziza convexula. Pers. 



Cup immersed, plane, then convex, sub-immargin- 

 ate, glabrous, ochraceous flesh-colour ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, biguttulate, smooth, 22 X 11/u; para- 

 physes septate, apices clavate. 



Peziza convexula — Pers, " Obs," p. 85 ; " Grevillea," 

 iii. fig. 81 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. 74 ; Cooke, " Mycogr," 

 fig. 36. Leucoloma convexula — Fckl, " Symb. Myco," p. 

 318. Peziza chrysopthalma — Gerard in " Bullet. Torr. 

 Club," vol. iv. No. 12. Aleuria convexula — Gill, 

 " Champ," p. 55, c. i. 



Exs.— Fckl, "F. Rh," 1875. 



On naked soil and amongst moss. Spring and 

 autumn. 



Cup 1 line broad. 



Name — Convexus, convex ; slightly convex. 



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



79. Peziza semi-immersa. Karst. 



Peziza somewhat gregarious, sessile, immersed in the 

 ground, at first subglobose, soon hemispherical, at length 

 expanded, applanate, very slightly pubescent or glabrous ; 

 margin unequally crenulate ; pale ochraceous, or between 

 testaceous and flesh-colour ; hymenium deeper colour ; 

 a*ci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 1 to 2-guttu- 

 late, smooth, 16 — 24 x 9 — 11 u ; paraphyses filiform, sep- 

 tate, apices curved. 



Peziza semi-immersa — Karst, "Mon. Pez," 117; 



