CG BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



semi-pellucid, sometimes pallid near the base, at length 

 expanded, almost plane ; hymenium olive-brown ; asci 

 cylindrical; sporidia 8, globose, smooth, 9 — 10/*; para- 

 physes filiform, gradually enlarged at the apices. 



Peziza leiocarpa — Curr., " Linn. Trans.," xxiv. p. 493, 

 t. 51, f. 4 and 8 ; B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1062, 

 t. xiv. f. 14; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 1985; "Mycogr.," 

 fig. 256 ; Pat., p. 70, fig. 163 (exclude sporidia and 

 paraphyses). Plicaria foveata — FckL, "Symb. Myco," 

 p. 326 (?) 



On burnt ground. 



Cup 1 \ to 3 inches broad ; hymenium at first pale, 

 then dark olive-brown. Resembling at first Peziza 

 pustulata (Batsch). 



Name — Xeiog, smooth, tcapwog, fruit; from the smooth 

 sporidia. 



Ascot ! (Rev. G. H. Sawyer). 



B. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC, SMOOTH. 



32. Peziza repanda. Wahl. 



Cup solitary or c?espitose, large, incised, and repand, 

 internally subrugose, brown ; externally farinose, whitish, 

 base elongated, rooting ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 elliptic, biguttulate, smooth, 18 — 20 x lOfj. ; paraphrase; 

 linear, sparse. 



Peziza repanda — Wahl., " Ups.," p. 466 ; Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco," ii. 51; Grev, "Sc. Crypt. Flo," t. 59; Berk, 

 "Eng. Flo," v. 188; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 1978; 

 "Mycogr," fig. 240; Weinm. ," Hym," p. 117. Aleuria 

 repanda — Gill, " Champ," p. 43. 



On old trunks and on the ground. Autumn. 



Cup 1 to 4 inches broad ; cells of the exterior of the 

 cup very large. This is one of the species with which 

 many others have been confounded, so that it is very 

 difficult to quote synonyms with any degree of cer- 

 tainty. If regard be paid to the sporidia, great paucity 

 of paraphyses, and large external cells, there should 



