100 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



88. Peziza mistwrce. Phil. 



Cups crowded or scattered, sessile, concave when dry, 

 applanate when moist, submarginate, chestnut-brown, 

 glabrous ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, broadly 

 elliptic, or subglobose, uniguttulate, smooth, 14 — 1G x 11/u; 

 paraphyses 1 to 6 times branched, apices pyriform, or 

 sometimes nearly moniliform or linear. 



Peziza misturce — Phil, in Gard. Chron., fig. 58, 

 Sept. 4, 1880. 



On a mixture of lime and cow-dung spread on the 

 trunks of apple-trees. Spring. 



Cup \ to 1J lines broad. 



The cells forming the exterior of the cup are narrowly 

 cylindrical and parallel ; the paraphyses are remarkable 

 from their habit of branching frequently, and from their 

 pyriform or moniliform summits, which characters dis- 

 tinguish it from P. exidiiformis, to which it has a slight 

 resemblance. 



Name — Mistura, a mixture ; from its habitat. 



Clifton, near Bristol ! (Mr. Cedric Bucknall). 



89. Peziza cervaria. Phil. 



Cups gregarious or crowded, sessile, thick in the 

 centre, thin at the crenulate margin, glabrous, chestnut- 

 brown ; hymenium concave, waved ; asci cylindrical, 

 abruptly narrowed at the base ; sporidia 8, oblongo- 

 elliptic, smooth, eguttulate, 15 X 7/u ; paraphyses linear, 

 abundant, forked at the apices. 



Peziza cervaria — Phil, in Stevenson's "Myco. Scot.," 

 p. 308. 



On roedeer-dunor Julv to August. 



Cup ^ to 2 lines broad. 



This species closely resembles P. hepatica (Batsch), 

 but differs in having much smaller sporidia, and slenderer 

 paraphyses, not thickened at the apices, and forked. 



Name — Cervarius, belonging to a hart or stag ; from 

 its habitat. 



Grantown, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Glamis, N.B. 

 (Rev. J. Stevenson). 



