104 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



"Ann. Nat. Hist./' No. 1481; " Grevillea," iii. fig. 84; 

 " Mycogr," fig. 32. 



Exs.— Rabh, "Fung. Eur.," No. 1812; Rav. "Fung. 

 Am," 174. 



On soil mixed with charcoal, and heathy ground. 



Cups 1 to 2J lines broad. The external cells of the 

 cup are very large. 



Name — Fusus, a spindle ; spores spindle-shaped. 



Berwick (Dr. Johnstone). Menmuir (Rev. M. Ander- 

 son). New Pitsligo (Rev. J. Fergusson). 



Var. Aggregata. Berk. 



Cups gregarious, confluent, obconic, orange ; base 

 whitish tomentose ; hymenium concave ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, fusiform, eguttulate, smooth, 28 — 30 X 8/u ; para- 

 physes linear, apices clavate, filled with orange granules. 



Peziza aggregata — B. and Br, "Ann. Nat. Hist," 

 1155; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 1998. 



On heathy ground. 



Cup scarcely £ of a line wide. 



Name — Aggrego, to assemble ; from the confluent 

 mode of growth. 



Berwick (Dr. Johnstone). 



Var. Scotica. Rabh. 



Varying from nearly white to orange or blood-red 

 (Steven, "Myco. Scot," p. 305). 



On heath and turfy ground. December. 



97. Peziza Roumegueri. Karst. 

 Var. Carnosissima. Phil. 



Cups crowded, sessile, extremely fleshy, poculiform, 

 orange-yellow, glabrous ; hymenium plane or very 

 slightly concave, margin indistinct ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, fusiform, smooth, 16 — 18 x 5/x ; paraphyses 

 linear, apices curved, filled with orange granules. 



Peziza Roumegueri — Karst. in " Grevillea," vii. p. 64. 

 Var. carnosissima — Phil, in " Grevillea," x. p. 67 ; " Scott. 

 Nat," vi. 122. 



