PEZIZA 109 



Forres ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Glamis ! (Rev. J. Steven- 

 son). Roslin, Epping, and Eastbourne (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 

 Attingham Park, Shrewsbuiy ! 



C. MARGIN FURNISHED WITH VERY DELICATE SHORT 



BLACK HAIRS. 



103. Peziza melaloma. A. and S. 



Cups sessile, crowded, at first concave, then nearly 

 plane, orbicular, or nexuose, dingy orange ; margin fur- 

 nished with very delicate black fasciculate hairs ; asci 

 subcylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 15 — 18 X 10/u ; 

 paraphyses clavate at the apices. 



Peziza melaloma — A. and S., " Consp.," p. 3*36, t. 2, 

 f. 5 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 09 ; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 190 ; 

 B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 88 ; Karst., " Myco. 

 Fenn.," p. 66 ; Nyl., " Pez. Fenn.," p. 16 ; Cooke, 

 "Handbk," No. 1995; "Mycogr.," fig. 67; " Grevillea," 

 iii. p. 53 ; Pat., p. 122, f. 275 (?). Pyronema melalomum 

 — FckL, " Symb. Myco.," 319. Aleuria melaloma — Gill., 

 " Champ.," p. 54, c. i. 



Exs.— Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," 550; Rabh., "Fung. 

 Eur.," 723; FckL, "F. Rh.," 1221; Rehm, "Asco.," 715. 



Cup 2 lines broad. The so-called " very delicate 

 black hairs " with which the margin is furnished are, in 

 the British form at least, merely prominent blackish 

 brown cells, not hairs. 



On the ground, especially where fire has been. 

 Autumn. 



Name — /ueXag, black, Xio/ma, a border ; black-margined. 



Coed Coch ; Wraxall, Somersetshire ; Ascot ; Orton 

 Longueville (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Glamis, N.B. (Rev. 

 J. Stevenson). Lilleshall ! and Caer Caradoc, Salop ! 

 Kew Gardens ! (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



D. DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



104. Peziza argillacea. Sow. 



Sessile, yellowish, even, at first urceolate, at length 

 cracked and torn, rooting at the base, and hairy. 



