PEZIZA. 97 



Cup 2 \ lines broad. 



It can at once be recognized as wholly different from 

 anything previously described. The cups were grouped 

 on a spot five or six inches in length and two or three 

 inches broad, on a decorticated trunk, saturated with 

 water, in contiguity to Peziza scutellata (Dr. Cooke). 



Name — XzkiQoq, the yolk of an egg ; from its colour. 



Forden, Montgomeryshire (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



82. Peziza glumarum. Desm. 



Cups crowded, sessile, when young conical, globose, 

 covered with white flocci, becoming concave or nearly 

 plane, glabrous, flexuose, orange-yellow; margin nearly 

 lacerated, white; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, 

 smooth, 18 X 10 fj, ; paraphyses linear. 



Peziza glumarum — Desm., " Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1841, 

 xv. p. 129; "Grevillea," iii. fig. 77; Cooke, "Mycogr.," 

 39. Aleuria glumarum — Gill., " Champ.," p. 55. 



Exs.— Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," 1054, ii. 454; Rabh, 

 " Fung. Eur.," 2967. 



On chaff. Spring. 



Cup 2 to 5 lines broad. 



Name — Gluma, chaff; from its habitat. 



Batheaston, near Bath (Mr. C. E. Broome). Cliff e 

 Pypard, Wilts (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



83. Peziza xanthomela. Pers. 



Cups gregarious, sessile, somewhat difformed ; hyme- 

 nium subconvex, lutescent ; externally blackish brown ; 

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

 smooth, 11 — 12 X 6/z; paraphyses filiform, very slender, 

 apices curved. 



Peziza xanthomela — Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 665 ; 

 Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. 74 ; " Grevillea," iii. fig. 86 ; Cooke, 

 " Mycogr.," 41. Aleuria xanthomela — Gill., " Champ.," 

 p. 207. 



Exs.— Rabh, "Fung. Eur," 315. 



On the ground in pine woods, and on dead larch- wood. 

 Autumn. 



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