426 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Var. cerea, Pehm, Ascom., n. 201. 



Similar in size, habit, and general structure to 1he typical 

 form ; differing in the wax-yellow colour, the more distinct 

 stem-like base, and the slightly smaller spores, 18-19 X 10/x; 

 very brittle. 



Peziza cerea, Sowerby, t. 3; Cooke, Mycogr., fig, 244; 

 Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 74; Sacc, Syli., viii. n. 272. 



Sowerby 's specimen examined. 



On the ground among leaves, on tan-beds, &c. Spring. 



Peziza reticulata. Grev., Scot. Crypt. FL, pi., vol. iii. 

 p. 156, pi. 156; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 67; Cooke, Mycogr., 

 fig. 227. 



Ascophore almost sessile, narrowed into a very thick stem- 

 like base which is sometimes 1-1 \ cm. long and the same or 

 more in thickness ; fleslry, brittle, saucer-shaped and entire 

 at first, then the margin becomes more or less lobed and 

 wavy, drooping, and usually revolute, extreme edge some- 

 times crisped, 5-13 cm. across ; disc reddish- tawny, usually 

 ornamented with strongly raised ribs which anastomose to 

 form an irregular network, outside whitish, very minutely 

 scurfy, due to the outgrowth of irregular groups of cells 

 from the excipulum ; excipulum composed entirely of hya- 

 line, interwoven hyphae, cortical cells inclined to become 

 pseudoparenchymatous ; asci cylindrical, 8-spored; spores 

 obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, smooth, elliptical, 23-26 X 

 12-13 /a; paraphyses rather stout, septate, clavate tips, 

 7-9 jx thick, brownish. Smell, very slight. 



Discina reticulata, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 376. 



On the ground. Spring. 



The present species is allied to Peziza repanda ; its dis- 

 tinguishing features are the prominent nodules or anasto- 

 mosing, raised lines on the disc. 



I have accepted as typical, specimens collected b} T the late 

 F. Currey, F.R.S., whose herbarium is now at Kew. The 

 specimen figured by Cooke in Mycographia, fig. 227, sent 

 from France by Professor de Seynes, agrees exactly with 

 Currey's British specimens. 



Plant solitary, 2-5 inches in diameter, of a reddish-brown 

 within, whitish or brownish-white on the outer suiface, and 

 somewhat farinose. In the young state the cup or pileus is 



