ELVELLACEI. 681 



At first entirely buried, then forcing its way through the soil, and splitting 

 into several lobes, like a Gecister, which it much resembles from its thick 

 B'xbstance. The outer coat is densely clothed with flexuous hairs, the spori- 

 dia are shortly and bluntly fusiform. — B. d; Br. 



2018. Peziza geaster. B. S; Br. "Starry Pezlza." 



Brown ; cup sub-globose, floccose, at length fissured in a 

 radiate manner ; asci linear ; sporidia elliptic ; paraphvses 

 clavate.— ^.^- Br. Ann. X.H. (1866), no. 956 and 1162, t. •!,/ 26 

 (not Gonn. 4' Bahli. iii. t. S,f. 5.) 



On the ground. Oct. "Wentwortli. 



About an in. across ; hairs flexuous, branched, articulated, often giving 

 out little curved, hyaline processes, with a few straight bristles intermixed. 

 Hymenium brown ; paraphyses clavate ; sporidia elliptic, with the ends 

 very sFightly attenuated (-0009 in.) "022 m.m. long.— ^. 4' Br, 



At first referred in error to Gopi/xis. — A/in. X.H. no. 95G. 



2019. Peziza sepulta. Fr. " Broken Peziza.'" 



Hypogaeous, globose, clothed with dense woolly fibres ; hy- 

 meniuiu at length exposed by the rupture of the upper portion ; 

 asci cylindrical ; sporidia elliptic, with one, two, or sometimes 

 several nuclei. — Fr.M.SS. Ann. N.H. no. 766. Berk. Outl.p. 365. 



On the ground. Xov. East Bergliolt. 



One or two in. across, the upper portion often breaking off irregularly, and 

 80 exposing the disc. — This is a far coarser species than P. Geaster. Sporidia 

 (•0009 in. by "0004 in.) -022 X -01 m.m.-^. <^- Br. 



2020. Peziza brunnea. A. ^^ S. " Brown Peziza." 



Sessile, hemispherical, then depressed, sub-flexuose, brown, 

 externally hairy, with short fasciculate hairs. — Fr. S.M. ii. p. 

 85. ^. (|- 5. ^ 9,/. 8. Enj.Fl.Y. p. Id3. Sturm.ii.t.Ul Fckl. 

 exs. 1217. P. hyhrida. Sow. t. 369, /. 1. Humaria brunnea. 

 Fckl. Sym. Myc.p. 323. 



On the ground. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Cups 1-3 lines broad, often flexuous by reason of the dense mode of growth, 

 when young subglobose, but soon more expanded and depressed, hairs less 

 distinct, scarcely cihating. — Fries. 



Sporidia sphserical, •013-*017 m.m. — Xyl. KariU 



2021. Peziza hirta. Sch. " Hairy brown Peziza." 



Sessile subhemispherical, externally brown, hairy, margin 

 somewhat inflexed, internally scarlet ; sporidia elliptic, smooth. 

 —Fr. S.M.n.p. 84. Mich. t. 96,/. 14. B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. no. 

 bblj 768. P. umhrosa. Rahh. exs. no. 1011. 



