PEZIZA. 75 



Cup 1 to 3 inches broad. It resembles Peziza 

 vesiculosa, from which it differs in its more fragile 

 texture, and rather smaller sporidia. 



Name — Cereus, like wax ; from the beeswax colour. 



Uffington ; Coed Coch (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Twy- 

 cross (Rev. A. Bloxam). Glamis (Rev. J. Stevenson). 

 Forres (Rev. Dr. Keith). On tan, North Wootton ! 

 (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Ludlow, on tan (Mrs. Price). 



43. Peziza bufonia. Pers. 



Cup hemispherical, often fragile ; hymenium bright 

 brown, externally warty, of the same colour ; margin 

 entire or laterally incised ; stem short, rooting, becoming 

 pallid ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 

 20 — 24 X 10 — 12/jl ; paraphyses filiform, clavate apices. 



Peziza bufonia — Pers., " Myco. Eur.," p. 225 ; Fries, 

 " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 54; Berk., Gard. Ckron., Jan. 13, 

 1866 ; B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1154, t. 3, f. 12 ; 

 Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 1982 ; " Micogr.," fig. 292. 



In moist woods, and on rubbish heaps. Autumn. 



A fine species, agreeing in size and colour with 

 Peziza umbrina ; externally rough with conical warts, 

 opaque, and of a dingy earth-colour, somewhat resembling 

 P. vesculosa, but distinguished by the brown hymenium 

 and verrucose cup. Sporidia '00075 — *0008 inches (B. 

 and Br.). 



Name — Bufo, el toad ; warted like a toad. 



Grantham (Mr. W. Summer by). 



Subgenus VIII. — Geoscypha. Cooke. 



Cup entire, or lobed, sessile, externally even, sub- 

 pruinose, sometimes quite smooth. (Plate IV. fig. 18.) 

 Name — yrj, the earth, vxixpog, a cup. 



Arrangement of the Species. 



a. Sporidia elliptic, asperate . . . . species 44-45 



B. Sporidia elliptic, smooth . . . . . . „ 4(3-57 



