672 ELVELLACEI. 



1986. Peziza pustulata. Pers. " Dingy Peziza." 



Sessile, siibglobose, pallid, someTvhat dingy, externally whitish, 

 mealy ; margin entire ; sporidia oblong-ovate ; ej)ispore granu- 

 lose. — Fr. S.M. ii. /;. 55. Hedw. Mus. f. r. t. 6, /. A. Batsch.f. 

 157. Fckl. exs. 710. 1227. Plicaria pustulata, FcJd. Sym. Myc. p. 

 327. 



On the ground. Rare. [Mid. Carolina.] . 



1987. Peziza ladula. B. ^^ Br. "Black warted Peziza." 



Large, cup-shaped, sessile, at length depressed, externally 

 black and rough with sub-equal warts, vinous-brown vrithin ; 

 sporidia globose, tuberculate. — B. ^' Br. Ann. N.H. xviii. p. 11 . 

 Berk. Outl. p. 364. 



On the ground in woods. Rare. Near Bristol. 



Cup depressed, sessile, nearly an in. across, black externally, broken into 

 nearly equal, distinct, sub -conical warts, like those of Genea ferrucosa. 

 Hymenium of a dark vinous brown ; asci large, obtuse ; sporidia large, glo- 

 bose, containing a single nucleus, rough with obtuse, distinct tubercles; 

 parapbyses septate, with the ultimate articulation clavate. — B.&Br. 



1988. Peziza viridaria. B.S)Br. " Greenish Peziza." 



Middle-sized; mycelium floccose, expanded, white; cups at 

 first globose, then hemispherical, at length expanded, watery- 

 grey, externally rough with brown furfuraceous particles ; asci 

 linear ; sporidia widely elliptic. — B. ^- Br. Ann. N.H. no. 555. 

 Berk. Outl. p. 364. 



On damp walls and water butts. Rare. King's Cliffe. 



Cups at first globose, tben hemispherical, at length expanded, |-^ in. 

 broad, pale watery brown or cinereous, sessile, springing from a white cottoiiy 

 efi"used stratum.— B. 6: Br. 



** Pruinosce. 



1989. Peziza cazbonaxia. A. ^^ S, " Charcoa' Peziza." 



Globoso-campanulate, even, reddish-ochre, externally sub- 

 pruinose ; margin mealy or crenate. — Fr. S.M. ii, p. 64. B. ^ 

 Br. Ann. N.H. (1865), no. 1063, t. 15,/. 15. Rabh. F.E.no. 622. 

 Gonn. ^' Rahh. iii. t. A,f. 4. 



On burnt ground. Ascot. 



Gregarious, thin, fragile, 3-8 lines broad, almost smooth, sometimes sessile, ' 

 sometimes elongated into a slender stem ; colour variable, more or less in- 

 tense, when young almost vermillion internally ; asci cylindrical, narrow ; 

 sporidia elliptic, smooth; paraphyses narrowly clavate. 



