PEZIZA. 99 



coming blackish ; hymcnium somewhat cbnvex or plane, 

 collapsing when dry ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, broadly 

 elliptic, smooth, 20 — 22 X 11 — 12^u ; paraphyses septate, 

 apices clavate. 



Peziza Oocardii — " Grevillea," iii. fig. 207 ; Cooke, 

 " Mycogr.," fig. 47. Peltidium Oocardii — Kalch. in Rabh., 

 " Fung. Eur.," 521 ; Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 84 ; " Scott. 

 Nat.," i. (new ser.) 861. 



Exs.— Rabh., " Fung. Eur.," 521 ; Karst., " Fung. 

 Fenn.," 636 (var.). 



On stones and (var. liquiaria — Karst.) on putrid pine- 

 wood. 



Cup 1 J to 2 J lines broad. 



Name — From Oocardium, a genus of fresh-water 

 algce, on one of the species of which it was found 

 growing. 



Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 



87. Peziza hepatica. Batsch. 



Cups gregarious, sessile, concave, vinous-brown, ex- 

 ternally granulated ; margin triangular-dentate ; asci 

 cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 26 — 28xl2^i; 

 paraphyses septate, apices slightly thickened. 



Peziza Jwpatica — Batsch, f. 138 ; B. and Br., " Ann. 

 Nat. Hist.," 1069, t. 15, f. 19 ; Cooke, " Handbk./' 2104 ; 

 "Mycogr.," fig. 85; Pat., f. 211, f. 485 (?). Aleuria 

 hepatica, Gill., " Champ./' p. 208. 



Exs.— Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," i. 567, ii. 191; Rabh., 

 "Fung. Eur.," 612; Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 81. 



On the ground and rabbit-dung. January to April. 



Cup 1 to 2 lines broad. 



When young subglobose and closed, then concave 

 and flattened, 1 to 2 lines broad, of a watery consistence ; 

 paraphyses septate, the joints more or less swollen or 

 inflated; asci linear ; sporidia elliptic, uniseriate, hyaline, 

 even, '001 X 0005 in. (B. and Br.). 



Name — riTraf), liver ; from its liver-colour. 



Bowwood, Bathford Down, Wilts (Mr. C. E. Broome). 

 Wrekin, Salop ! 



