ELVELLACEI. 669 



At first hemispherical, with a short stem, margin almost involute, at 

 length split, curled, and flexuous, of the clearest orange within; externally 

 ale, mealy, with minute sparkling granules. -Eag. Fl. 



Sporidia ellipsoid, -OlJ-Oie X 'OOS-Olm m. ( 00i--005 X -OOOSin.) with two 

 nuclei. — Karst, 



Sporidia 020--023 X -OOQ-'Oll m.m.-G*. dfciZ. 



1976. Peziza luteo-nitens. B. d: Br. " Bright Yellow 



Peziza," 



Crowded, bright yellow ; cups concave, nearly regular, at 

 length flexuose ; asci linear : sporidia elliptic, with two nuclei ; 

 paraphyses filiform; apices slightly clavate. — B. Sf Br. Ann. N.H. 

 no. 556. Berk. Outl.p. 364. 



On the bare ground. Rare. King's Cliffe. 



Bright orange yellow, when very young globose, then concave, gradually 

 becoming irregular, and at length flexuous, smooth externally, ^-^ in. broad, 

 resembling at first sight stunted specimens of P. aurantia, but essentially 

 different, not only as proved by the habit, but the smooth, not ec -liniilate or 

 pointed sporidia. — ^.i*i)r. 



1977. Peziza fibrillosa. Curr. "Woolly Orange Peziza." 



Cup 1 in. broad, nearly sessile, irregular, orange, clothed ex- 

 ternally with dingy-white downy fibrillaj, which form a rather 

 dense tomentose edging to the cup ; spores quite smooth, ellip- 

 tical without nuclei ; paraphyses filiform, enlarged spherically 

 at the apex, — Curr Linn. Trans, xxiv. j). 153. 



On the ground. Oct., 1861. Hanham wood. 



In some of the asci I noticed a cupulate depression at the summit. Allied 

 to P. aurantia, from which it difi'ers in the woolly external covering, and 

 smooth sporidia. 



Sporidia ( 0006--0007 in.) -015. '017 m.m. long.— P. C. 



Sect. 3. Cupulares. Subsessile, regular. 



 Pustulates. 



1978. Peziza xepanda. Wahl. " Spreading Peziza." 



Large, incised, waved, brown, internally somewhat wrinkled, 

 brown, externally farinose, whitish ; base elongated, rooting ; 

 sporidia oblong-ovate, rough. — Fr. S.M. ii. p. 51. Jacq. Misc. t. 

 10. Grev. t.6d. Eng. Fl. v. p. 188. Pers. Ic. Pict. t. 20,/. 2 ? Pli- 

 caria repanda. Fckl. Sym. Myc.p. 328. 



On the ground, and stumps. 



Variable in size ; pileus when splitting never convolute. 



Sporidia •010--014 X 'OOG-OOZ m.m.—Nyl. 1. 



Sporidia -Olo-'OIS X -OOS-'OOQ m.m. (•OOOo-'OOOG X '0003 in.) — A^y^. 2. 



