690 ELVELLACEI. 



On dead nettles, &c. SiDring. [Mid. Caroliiia.] 



Often browB when dry. 



Sporidia fusiform, simple, or at length spuriously 1-3 septate, •014-*024 

 X •002--0025 m.m.-.V^^. 

 Sporidia filiform -fusoid •012--024 X *0015.-0025 ra.m.—Karst. 



2054. Feziza plano-um'oilicata. Grev. " Umbilicate 



Peziza.'' 



Small, SQgsile, gregarious, whole plant wliite, globoso-con- 

 cave, at length quite plane, cileated with horizontal white hairs 

 at the margin ; hymenium gently umbilicated. — Grev. Fl. Ed. p. 

 420. Eng. FL y. ;?. 198. 



On dead nettles. 



Wholly white, remarkably plane, with a small dimple in the centre of the 

 hymenium, which, in old age, assumes a yello-wish tinge. The external sur- 

 face is covered with white hairs, which form a beautiful ciliated margin, 

 not in the least raised. The margin is so regular, that if there had been 

 fewer ciKa it might have been called pectinate.— 6-Vey. 



2055. Peziza villosa. Pers. " Villous Peziza." 



Sessile, minute, persistent, globose, villous, white, mouth 

 somewhat connivent. — Fr. S.M. ii. p. 104. Eng. Fl. v. p. 198. 

 Rabh. exs. no. 225. Schmidt, exs. no. 48. Fchl. exs. no. 2286. P. 

 sessilis. Sow. t. 389,/. 1. Nees.f. 2S3 var. Trichopeziza villosa. 

 Fckl.Sym.Myc.p.2'd^. 



On large herbaceous plants, Burdock, &c. Common. 



[United States.] 



Open only in wet weather ; cups 4-|-a line broad, scattered or much 

 crowded. — Eng. Fl. 



2056. Peziza Grevillei. BerTi. " Greville's Peziza." 



Sessile, gregarious, very minute, cups farinoso-tomentose 

 (sub-hirsute), pale-umber. — Eng.Fl.Y.p. 198. P.nidulus. Grev. 

 Fl. Ed. p. 420. Johnst. Fl. Berw. ii. p. 149. 



On dead Umhelliferoe . 



2057. Peziza Bexkeleii. Blox. " Berkeley's Peziza." 



Gregarious, sessile, cups hemispherical, furfuraceo-floccose, 

 almost pruinose ; hymenium concave, tawny ; asci clavate ; spo- 

 ridia oblong, subfusiform or cymbiform. — Ann. N.H. no. 770. 



On dead stems of Umhelliferoe. 



Very minute, often crowded, hemispherical, with the margin at first 

 strongly inflected, clothed with furfuraceous yellow flocci. In young speci- 

 mens the orifice is distinctly marked, with radiating lines. Sporidia ( 0003- 

 "0004 in.) '0076- 01 m.m. long. Under the lens the coat consists of very short 

 flocci, intermixed with minute hyaline amorphous scales. — B.dcBr. 



