282 BKITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Name — Sanguis, blood ; blood- colour. 

 Beeston, Nottinghamshire. Shifnal, Salop. 



(/3) Sporidia septate. 

 8. Tapesia fusca. (Pers.) 



Subiculum formed of densely woven, brown filaments, 

 at times widely diffused, at other times hardly visible ; 

 cups scattered or gregarious, concave, brown, then plane, 

 cinereous, mouth often paler ; hymenium pallid- white, 

 cinereous, or brownish ; externally glabrous ; asci clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, fusiform or oblong-fusiform, simple or 2-guttu- 

 late, becoming pseudo-septate, 8 — 16 X 2 — 3^. Peziza 

 fuscor—PeTS., "Obs.," i. p. 29; " Syn. Fung.," p. 657; 

 " Myco. Eur.," i. p. 272 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 109 ; 

 Grev., t. 192; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 200 (in part); Cooke, 

 " Handbk.," No. 2074 ; Nyl., " Pez. Fenn.," p. 50 ; Karst, 

 " Pez. et Ascob.," p. 26. Tapesia fusca — Fckl., " Symb. 

 Myco.," p. 302. Mollisia fusca — Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," 

 p. 207. Phialea fusca— Gill., " Champ.," p. 113. 



Exs.— Fckl., "F. Rh.," 1593; Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 77 , 

 Rhem, "Asco.," 153; Cooke, "Fung. Brit./' ed. ii. 556. 



On wood. Spring and autumn. 



Cups about J- a line wide. 



Name — Fuscus, brown, with a grey tinge. 



Near Shrewsbury ! Hereford ! Very common. 



9. Tapesia Johnstoni. (Berk.) 



Sessile ; cups globose or subturbinate, at length open 

 and rufous, with a satiny lustre, attached beneath to a 

 broad, black-brown, grumous subiculum. 



Peziza Johnstoni — Berk., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 313. 



On fallen branches. 



" Forming a uniform stratum on decayed sticks. Cups 

 half a line broad, at first brown and pulverulent, at length 

 rufous, rather thin, with a satiny lustre, subturbinate, 

 with the margin permanently inflected, at first cpiite 

 closed; subiculum granulated, grumous, obscurely floccose" 

 (M. J. B.). 



