688 ELVELLACEI. 



var. /3. plumbea. Disc lead coloured. — Grev. t. 11. Fl. 

 Dan. t. 17 SG,f.l. 



On dead wood. 



Often much resembling P, cinerea. 



2046. Peziza rufo-olivacea. A. t^-- S. "Brown and olive 



Peziza." 



Sessile, becoming plane, externally villoso-pulTerulent, dingy 

 ferruginous-red; disc greenish-olive (at length black). — F7\ S.M. 

 ii. p. 99. A. 4' S. 1. 11,/. 4. Eng. Fl. v.p. 197. Fckl. exs. no. 1192. 

 VelutarianifO'Olivacea. Fckl. Sym.Myc.p. 800. 



On dead bramble. Appin. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Sporidia elliptical, uniseriate, binueleate ('0005 in.) -0127 m.m., large for 

 the size of the plant. — E.C. 



2047. Peziza diplocarpa. Curr. " Double fruited Peziza." 



Cups rather flat, stipitate, externally vinous-brown, clothed 

 (as well as the stem) with dense short hairs ; margin slightly 

 inflexed, fimbriate ; disc waxy, sub-glaucous, greenish-olive ; 

 sporidia elliptical, nucleate ; paraphyses filiform, apices clavate- 

 acuminate, 2-4 septate. — Curr. Linn. Trans, xxiv. p. 153, t. 25, 

 /. 30-33. 



On the ground. Nov. Joyden's wood, Dartford. 



Cups |- in. wide, margin slightly inflexed and surrounded by a ringof 

 hairs of a pale umber, forming a marked contrast in colour with the reddish 

 brown outer hairs j disc waxy, somewhat glaucous, of a greenish olive colour ; 

 sporidia elliptical, with a nucleus at each extremity, usually slightly nar- 

 rowed at each end, "0076 m.m. ("OOOS in.) long ; paraphyses filiform, termi- 

 nating in spore-like bodies, the latter 2-4 septate, acuminate at the apex, 

 and tapering to the junction with the filament, varying much in length, from 

 •0008 to -0018 in. Allied to P. rufo-olicacea.—A. d: S. 



2048. Peziza variecolor. Fr. " Various-coloured Peziza." 



Sessile, hemispherical, orbicular, rather firm, flocculoso-vil- 

 lose ; disc urceolate, white, becoming pallid. — Fr. S.M. ii. p. 

 100. Eng. FL v. p. 197. P. alho-lutea. Pers. Ic. ^- Des. t. 8,/. 4- 

 5. P. hydnoidea. Sow. 1. 11%. Tapiesia variecolor. Fckl. Sym. 

 Myc.p. 302. 



On rotten wood. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Gregarious, sessile, but not adnate ; when young or dry closed, granuli- 

 form, when moistened soon expanded ; disc concave, of a peculiar pallid 

 hue, margin often granulated with flocci. — Fries. 



Sporidia oblong, -OOr-'Oll X ■002-'003 m.m.— iVy^ Karst. 



