TAPESIA. 



277 



E. Cups externally naked. 



(a) Sporidia fusiform or oblong. 



(a) Sporidia simple .. .. species 7 



(/3) Sporidia septate or nucleate . . „ 8 



Doubtful . . . . • • • • • • » 9 



Key to the Species. 



Tapesium blood-red . . 

 Tapesiura golden-yellow 

 Tapesium blackish-brown 

 Tapesium whitish 

 /Growing on Aira casspitosa 



2. 



3. 



Growing on bark or wood 



Cups glabrous ; hymenium pallid- white, cinereous, 



or brownish 

 Cups subtomentose ; hymenium cinereous . 

 Cups rufous, with a satiny lustre . . 

 Hymenium pale tawny 

 Hymenium bluish-grey, sometimes black . 

 Hymenium whitish, when dry yellowish . 



sanguined. 



aurelia. 



1 



3 



mutabiUs 



2 



fusca. 

 Rosas. 

 Johnston i. 

 rhcthdospt rma. 

 cassia, 

 eriobasis. 



A. CUPS EXTERNALLY VILLOSE OR TOMENTOSE. 



(a) Sporidia fusiform or oblong. 



(a) Sporidia simple. 



1. Tapesia cozsia. (Pers.) 



Sessile, becoming plane, villous, whitish ; margin 

 obtuse ; base seated on a subiculum of long, interwoven, 

 whitish mycelium ; hymenium subgelatinous, fuliginous 

 brown or bluish-grey ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 

 8, cylindrical or oblong-elliptic, straight or curved, 

 5 — 6 X 2/n ; paraphyses slenderly filiform. 



Peziza Lichenoides — Pers., " Icon, et Desc," p. 29, t 

 7, f. 1. Peziza ccesia — Pers., " Syn. Fung./' p. 657 ; 

 " Myco. Eur.," p. 272 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 108 ; 

 Nees, " Sys," f. 272 ; Dit. and Sturm., " Deut. Flo.," iii. 

 t. 31 ; " Eng. Flo." v. p. 199 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 

 2068. Tapesia coesia — FckL, " Symb. Myco.," p. 301. 

 Peziza chavetice — Lib., exs. No. 26 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," 

 No. 2069. Lachnea cwsia — Gill., " Champ.," p. 92. 



Exs.— Libert., " Crypt. Ard.," No. 26 ; Cooke, " Fang. 

 Brit," No. 562, ed. ii. 555; Phil, " Elv. Brit," No. 76. 



On chips of oak, etc. Autumn. 



