676 ELVELLACEl. 



2001. Peziza humosa. Ft. "Ground Peziza." 



Sessile, fleshy, concave, then plane, smooth, blood-red, margin 

 quite entire; sjioridia variable in size; paraphyses highly de- 

 veloped, clavate at the tips, often furcate, or bearing curious 

 processes at their side. — Fr. S.M. ii. p. 71. Eng. Fl. v. p. 191. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 056,/. 2. B. ^- Br. Ann. N.H. no. 1156*, t. 3,/. 15. 

 Batsch.f. 220 ? Bolt. 1. 101,/. 1. Sow. t. 369,/. 2. P. punicea. 

 Purt. t. 25. P. PolytricU. B. ^ Br. Ann. H.N. no. 768, ^. 16, /. 

 14*. Crouania Jinmosa. FcJcl. Sym. Myc.p.o20. 



On the ground. 



Sporidia (•0C06--001 in. long, by 'OOOS-'OOOS in. wide), •015--025m.m.long, 

 by "OOZ-'Ol m.m. wide. 



2002. Peziza Wrightii. Berh. ^^ Curt. " Wright's Peziza." 



Cups hemispherical, at length plane, carmine, externally fur- 

 furaceous, granulated ; sporidia globose or subglobose, when 

 young even, adult echinulate; paraphyses slender, branched. — 

 'Ann. N.H. 1865, no. 1064, t. xv./. 16. 



On trunks of trees, covered with Hypnum serpens, March. 

 Bodelwyddan. [Texas, U.S.] 



Sporidia COOOiS.-OOOe in.) -Ol-'OIS m.m. diameter. 



2003. Peziza gluxnaxuxn. Desm. " Chaff Peziza." 



Delicate, crowded, when young conico-globose, clad with white 

 flocci, at length concave, somewhat flat, smooth, flexuous, 

 orange-yellow, margin sublaciniate, whitish ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia ovate. — Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. ii. vol. xx. p. 129. Desm. exs. 

 no. 1054, ii. 7io. 454. B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 768. 



On chaff in a farm-yard. Dec. Batheaston. 



Sporidia •016-023 X •009--011 m.m.-Nyl. 



2004. Peziza omphalodes. Bull. " Charcoal Peziza." 



Sessile, crowded, cups minute, nearly plane, sub-umbilicate, 

 clothed with fugacious white down ; asci clavate ; sporidia ellip- 

 tic. — Fr. S.M. ii.^. 75. Bull. t. 485, /. 1. Gonn. ^ Rabh. iii. t. 3, 

 / 6. Fckl. exs. no. 121^. Cooke exs.no. ^2Q. Bahh. F.E. no. 268, 

 708. Pers. Obs. ii. t. 5,/. 6, 7. Karst. exs. no. 256. Karst. Mon. 

 Pez. p. 120. Desm. exs. i. no. 428. Thelephoracarbonaria. Eng. 

 Fl.Y.p.16'^. Pyronema marianum. Cams. Berk. Mag. Zool. ^ 

 Bot. no. 9. Nov. Act. Curz. xvii. t. 27. Pyronema omphalodes. 

 Fckl. Sym. Myc.p. 39. Pyronema conjluens. Tul. Carp. iii. p. 197. 



