TAPESIA. 279 



" When old it bears some resemblance to pale forms 

 of P. atrata and P. palustris " (M. J. B.). 



Cups 200 to 300/x broad, seated on a dark radiating 

 tapesium. No hairs are discoverable on the cups in the 

 original specimens. 



Name — Mutabilis, variable. 



Deny Hill, Wilts ! 



4. Tapesia Rosce. (Pers.) 



Sessile, subcoriaceous, concave, subtomentose, bright 

 brown, as well as the tomentose subiculum ; asci cylin- 

 draceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-fusiform, 7 — 10 X 2oju ; 

 paraphyses indistinct. 



Peziza Rosce— Pers., " Obs.," 2, p. 82 ; " Myco. Eur.," 

 p. 278; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 109; "Eng. Flo.," v. 

 p. 200 ; Tode, i. f. 41 ; Berk., " Mag. Zool. and Bot.," No. 

 10; Karst., "Pez. et Ascob.," p. 25; Nyl., " Pez. Fenm," 

 p. 34 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 2073. Tympanis obtexta 

 (Wallr.), var. pezizceformis — Wallr., " Flo. Germ./' ii. 

 p. 428. Tapesia Rosce— Fckl, " Symb. Myco./' p. 301. 

 Mollisea Rosce — Karst., " Myco. Fenn," p. 208. Lachnea 

 Rosce— Gill., " Champ./' p. 92. 



Exs. — Kabh, "Fung. Eur.," nov. ed.,359 ; Karst., "Fung. 

 Fenn," 276; Fckl, " F. Ph.," 1874; Berk., exs. No. 157; 

 Cooke, " Fung. Brit," 477 ; Phil, " Elv. Brit," 30. 



On dead branches of Rosa canina. Autumn. 



Cups J- a line broad ; subiculum tomentose, broadly 

 effused, indeterminate ; cups scattered or aggregated, at 

 first urceolate ; margin inilexed, then greatly expanded, 

 when dry corrugated and deformed. 



Name — Rosa, the genus to which the wild rose 

 belongs. 



Appin (Capt. Carmichael). King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. 

 Plowright). Clungunford, Salop ! 



Var. Prunicola. Fckl. 



Cups twice the size of those in T. Rosce, very black, 

 and the hairs more brown-black ; asci oblong, stipitate ; 



