PEZIZA. 107 



seated on a downy white tapesium ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, uniguttulate, smooth, 14 — 16 x 8 — 9// ; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza Piggotii — B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 

 769 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2067. 



On plaster ceilings. 



Mycelium white, downy, but not spreading very 

 widely, running up the base of the hemispherical or 

 cyathiform cups, which are about 2 lines broad ; margin 

 generally acute (B. and Br.). 



This is quite distinct from P. domestica, being larger 

 and firmer in texture, and it has different sporidia. 



Name — After Mr. H. Piggot. 



Chelmsford (H. Piggot, Esq., in Herb. Berk.). 



100. Peziza hcemastigma. (Hedw.) 



Cups sessile, convex, immarginate, smooth, pale blood- 

 red ; asci cylindraceo-clavate, or clavate ; sporidia 8, 

 broadly elliptic, smooth, 20 x 10/z ; paraphyses not seen. 



Peziza haimastigma — Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. 74 ; B. 

 and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1159, t. 4, f. 20; Sturm, 

 xxxiii. t. 11; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2008; "Mycogr.," 

 fig. 70. Octospora haimastigma — Hedw., " Mus. Frond./' 

 t. 5, f. B. 



On whitewashed walls. 



Cup J of a line broad. Asci short, oblong, sub- 

 clavate ; sporidia biseriate, nearly globose. 



Name — at/xa, blood, GTijfia, a point; forming blood- 

 like spots. 



Pen-y-Gwryd, North Wales (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



B. CUPS AT FIRST CLOTHED WITH SLENDER FUGACEOUS 



HAIRS. 



101. Peziza domestica. Sow. 



Cups sessile, gregarious, or densely crowded, at first 

 wart-like, then conical or subcylindrical, at length cyathi- 

 form, fleshy, salmon-coloured, clothed with slender de- 

 ciduous hairs, and seated on a fugaceous white tomentum ; 



