50 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



teeth ; stem elongated, rooting, very fragile ; asci cylin- 

 drical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 20 X 9^ ; paraphyses 

 filiform, clavate apices. 



Peziza ammophila — Dr. and M., "Flo. d'Algerie," 

 t. 28, fig. 2; B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1619; 

 " Grevillea," v. p. 59; Cooke, "Mycogr.," f. 100, 373. 

 Aleuria ammophila — Gill., "Champ.," p. 38. 



Exs. — Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," ed. ii. 645. 



Immersed in sand on the sea-coast, at the roots of 

 Psamma. Autumn. 



Cups 1 inch high and broad ; rooting stem 2 to 3 

 inches long. The sand adheres so closely to the floccose 

 exterior that it forms a complete coating. The whole 

 plant is extremely brittle, and so much immersed in the 

 sand as hardly to be recognized. 



Name — a/u/iog, sand, (piXog, loving ; from its prefer- 

 ence for sandy soil. 



St. Andrews, N.B. ! (Rev. Mark Anderson). Brampton 

 Burrows, Hfracombe ! (Dr. T. A. Chapman). 



10. Peziza rapulum. Bull. 



Cup infundibuliform, margin at length broadly de- 

 pressed, sub-umbilicate, thin, fragile, glabrous, transparent, 

 varying from whitish straw-coloured to nearly fulvous ; 

 stem slender, elongated, rooting ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 

 8, ovate-elliptic, 10 X Ofi ; paraphyses filiform. 



On the ground amongst leaves, etc. Spring. 



Peziza rapulum — Bull., " Champ.," p. 265, t. 485, 

 f. 3 ; Fries, "Sys. Mvco.," ii. 59; " Eng. Flo.," V. v. 189 ; 

 Cooke, "Handbk," No. 1967 ; " Mycogr.," fig. 197 ; Gill., 

 "Champ.," p. 38, c. i. (?) Peziza, rapida — Pers., " Syn. 

 Fung.," p. 658. Peziza radicata — Holms., ii. t. 9 ; Dicks., 

 "Crypt.," i. p. 21 ; With., iv. p. 304. Aleuria, rapulum 

 —Gill., " Champ.," p. 38, c. i. (?). 



The cup is rather shallow, J an inch or more broad ; 

 margin entire except when old, when it becomes reflexed 

 and split ; the exterior near the base is longitudinally 

 wrinkled ; the stem is 1 to 2 inches long, immersed in the 

 ground, ordinarily furnished with fibrils. 



