FEZIZA. 105 



On decaying vegetable matter. 



Cup J a line across. Much crowded ; disc barely 

 depressed, so that the cups can hardly be called cups 

 except in outline, being fleshy to the top. They have no 

 erect, thin, membranaceous, paler margin, as the type 

 has, nor are the apices of the paraphyses clavate. The 

 cells of the exterior of the cup are moderate-sized — 

 20 to 30/u diam. 



Name — Carnosus, fleshy ; extremely fleshy. 



Glamis, N.B. ! (Rev. J. Stevenson). 



Subgenus X. — Pyronema. Fckl. 



Cups often densely gregarious, sessile, fleshy, seated 

 upon or surrounded by a delicate, radiating, web-like, 

 white mycelium ; hymenium at length plane, subconvex 

 or umbilicate, scarcely marginate, losing colour ; sporidia 

 8, elliptic, smooth. (Plate IV. fig. 22.) 



Growing on ashes, burnt ground, plaster walls, and 

 damp paper. 



Some of the species (subhirsuta and domestica) are, 

 when young, clothed with delicate fugaceous hairs, 

 forming a connecting link between Peziza (as here 

 limited) and Sarcoscypha. 



Name — wvp, fire ; vi/moj, I inhabit ; found in burnt 

 places. 



Arrangement of the Species. 



a. Clips glabrous from the first . . . . species 98-100 



b. Cups at first clothed with fugaceous hairs „ 101-102 



c. Clips furnished with delicate short black hairs „ 103 



d. Doubtful species . . . . . . . . „ 104 



Key to the Species. 



Margin of cup darker than hymenium, and granular melaloma. 



Margin same colour as hymenium . . . . . . 1 



'Paraphyses linear, very slender; hymenium brick- 

 red . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pegotii. 



Paraphyses linear, stout ; hymenium orange-red . . omphalodes. 



Paraphyses clavate; hymenium orange-yellow .. subhirsuta. 



Paraphyses subclavate; hymenium salmon-colour . . domestica. 



.Paraphyses unknown . . . . . . . . 2 



(Hymenium blood-red . . . . . . . . . . hxmastigma. 



\Hymenium yellowish .. .. .. .. .. argillacea. 



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