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description and exsicc, when he admits that the spores are 

 so very different. Karsten's specimens, as I have explained 

 under Peziza ancilis, are typical of the last-named species. 



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Epispore rough. 



Peziza badia. Pers., Obs., ii. p. 78 ; Cke., Mycogr., 

 fig. 226 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 58 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 293. 



Gregarious or caespitose, sessile or narrowed into a veiy 

 short, stout, stem-like base and often more or less lacunose ; 

 subglobose and closed at first, then cup-shaped or more 

 expanded, margin entire or nearly so, the entire cup often 

 wavy, rather thick, 3-5 cm. across ; disc dark brown, exter- 

 nally paler brown and minutely granular, often with a 

 purple tinge; hypothecium and excipulum formed of stout, 

 septate, irregularly inflated hyphae, hypothecium compact, 

 excipulum spongy and cavernous; cortex compact, the 

 hyphae running out in irregular lumps to form the external 

 granulations ; asci cylindrical, apex truncate, 8-spored ; 

 spores obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, elliptical, 

 with one large oil-globule, minutely warted at maturity, 

 15—19 X 9—10 fx ; paraphyses septate, tips slightly clavate. 



On the ground among grass, &c, also on scorched places. 



Readily distinguished by the bay or umber-brown disc, 

 and the minutely warted spores. 



Specimen examined in Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 9. 



Peziza atro-vinosa, Ger. & Cooke, is a North American 

 species, and not British as stated by Saccardo— Syll., viii. 

 p. 83 ; it is allied to P. badia, but differs in the coarsely 

 nodulose, elliptic-oblong spores. 



Peziza saniosa. Schrader, Journ. Bot., vol. ii. p. 64 

 (1799); Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 70; Cooke, Mycogr., fig. 299 

 (spores smooth). 



Ascophore sessile, flesh thick especially at the base, cup- 

 shaped and slightly contracted at the base, regular, margin 

 entire, up to 1 cm. across ; disc varying from purplish- 

 brown to dark violet, externally minutely scurfy, brown 

 with a purple tinge ; excipulum entirely composed of thick 

 interwoven hyphae ; asci cylindrical, 8-spored ; spores 



