680 ELYELLACEI, 



Oq dead twigs of Ulex^ buried in the sandy soil. Noy. Ascot. 



Cup 3-6 lines broad. The stem varies in length according to the depth at 

 ■which the twig is buried. Sporidia uniseriato, linear-oblong (-OOOS-'OOOGin.) 

 long ; about \ in. high when full grown, stipitate, the stem branching out 

 or dividing into several heads, which form cups. The cups are often pro- 

 liferous, producing smaller cups on their surface, of a bright apricot colour, 

 but whitish towards the margin. — B, ^' Br. 



2015. Peziza radiculata. Sow. " Eooting Peziza.'' 



Subcfespitose, fleshy, sessile, hemisplierical, then expanded ; 

 disc sulphureous externally, as well as the thick root, white, 

 yillons.— Fr. S.M. i\.p. 81. Sow. t. 114. Eng. FL y.p. 192. B. ^ 

 Br.Ann.N.H. (1866), no. 1160*, ^. 4,/. 23. Rahh. exs.no. Ql^, 



In fir wood. Jedburgh. 



Sporidia ('0005 in.) "0127 m.m. long, rather broad, binucleate. — 5. ^ Br. 

 Somewhat reticulated externally, with irregular prominent veins, 1 in. or 

 more broad.— -^ft^. Fl. 



2016. Peziza hexnispherica. ^Vigg. " Hemispherical 



Peziza." 



Sessile, hemispherical, waxy, externally brownish, clothed 

 with dense, fasciculate hairs ; disc glaucous -white. — Fr. S.M. ii. 

 ;?. 84. FcJd.exs. no. 12U. Eng. Fl. v. p. W3. Mich. t. S6,f.4:. 

 Bull.t.20A,nd6,f.2. Fl. Dan. 1. 1668,/. 2,656, f.l. Hedw.u. 

 t. 4,/. B. Schceff. i. 151, t. 319. Hoffm. Cr. ii. t. l,f. 6. P. Mspida, 

 Sow. t. 147. P hirsuta Holms, ii.t. 19. Humaria liemispthcerica, 

 Fchl. Sym. Myc.p. 322. 



On the ground. [Mid. & Up. Carolina.] 



Cup 2 lines — 1 in. broad, varying much in colour. 

 Sporidia ellipsoid •023-026 X 'OU-'OIS m.m.— iVy^. Earst. 



2017. Peziza lanuginosa. Bull. " Woolly Peziza." 



Cup broad, thin, waxy, fragile, sessile, ferruginous beneath, 

 woolly, of a greyish-white within, cup-shaped ; sporidia shortly 

 and bluntly fusiform. — Bull. t. 396,/. 2. 



var. Sumneri. Cup at length radiato-fissured ; margin 

 when young narrow, naked. — B. ^' Br. Ann. N.H. (1866) no. 

 1161,^.4,/. 25. 



Under cedars and larch. Jan. — May. 



A large and magnificent species, acquiring frequently a diameter of 2 in. 

 and combining in some measure the characters of P. sepvJfa and P. hemis- 

 pherica, from both of which it differs in the subfusiform fruit. In plants 

 which are just open a delicate veil is often found stretched over the orifice. 



