684 ELVELLACEI. 



Cup at first obovate or subcylindrical, concave, and expanded, wlien mature, 

 of a briplit orange colour within, beset externally with delicate, erect, white 

 hairs, which are hyaline under the microscope, and seated at first on a deli- 

 cate white subiculum, which disappears as the plant advances to maturity, 

 and the cups become crowded. Sporidia ("OODS in.) "0127 m.m. long ("00025 

 in.) *0G5 m.m. wide.— ^. it Br. 



2030. Feziza albo-spadicea. Grev. " Ked-brown and white 



Peziza." 



Sessile, gregarious, globose, at length quite plane ; external 

 surface, and margin strigose, with reddish-brown hairs ; 

 hymenium white. — Grev. Fl. Ed. p. 420. Eng. Fl. y.j). 194. 



On the ground. 



About 2 lines broad, globose when young, gradually becoming plane. 

 Hymenium white, smooth, with a slight tinge of grey in moist weather ; ex- 

 tei-nally covered with reddish-brown hairs, which form also a border to the 

 hymenium. — Grev. 



Sect. 2. Das?/sct/phce. "Waxy, dry, externally villous. 



2031. Peziza ciliazis. Schrad. ♦' Fringed white Peziza." 



Stijoitate, cyathiform, snow-white, externally beset with long 

 scattered hairs. — Schrad. Journ.p. 65. Fr. S.M. i\.p. 89. FcJd. 

 ea:s. wo. 1209. Ann. N.H. no.bo'd, Hycdopeziza ciliaris. Fckl. 

 Sym.Myc.p. 298. 



On dead oak leaves. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Asci oblong, stipitate j sporidia fusiform, straight or curved, hyaline. — 

 FcU. 



2032. Peziza virginea. Batsch. "Virgin white Peziza." 



Stipitate, white, ^p hemispherical, externally beset with 

 crowded patent hairs. — Fr. S.M. ii. p. 90. Fckl. exs. no. 1208. 

 Eng.Fl. Y.p.lU. Mich.t. 36,/. 15. Bull, t 376,/. 3. Fl.Dan. 

 ?, 1016,/. 4. Holms. \\. t. 14. F. nivea. Sow. t. 65. Gonn. ^ 

 Eabh. iii. t. 5,/ 10. Dasyscypha virginea. Fckl Sym. 3fyc. p. 

 S05. 



On stumps, twigs, &c. Common. 



[Low. & Mid. Carolina.] 



Gregarious; cup 1 line high, externally pilose, the margin cileated, and 

 often studded with dew drops. — Eng. Fl. 



Sporidia fusiform, '006--01 X •002--0025 m.m.— Nyl. 



Sporidia elongated-fusoid, straight, '005 '01 X *001o-"0025 m.m. — Karst. 



Sporidia fusiform, •002-*0027 m.m. broadj and 3-4 times as long.— G. die R. 



