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2038. Peziza aspidiicola. B.cfBr. "Fern Peziza.'" 



WTiite, rather buff when dry ; stem very short; cups concave, 

 subhemispherical, externally furfuraceo-floccose ; asci very 

 short and slender ; sporidia oblong, subclavate. — Ann. N.H. no. 

 111. 



On dead stems of Aspidium filix-mas. Nov. 



Yery minute, gregarious; stem ex remely short, gradually passing into 

 the sub- hemispherical cup, which is clothed externally with minute pellucid 

 scales, mixed with a few obscure hyaline flocci. Sporidia ("0002 in.) '005 

 m,m. long.— £. cD Br. 



2059. Peziza albo-testacea. Desm. *' Brick-red Peziza." 



Erumpent, sessile, small, scattered, flocculose, white, and 

 brick-red colour, hemispherical, closed when dry ; disc open 

 when moist, flesh-coloured ; asci small. — Desm. Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 xix. (18-43),/). 3G8. Desm. exs.no. l-ilb. Ann. N.H. no. 660. 



On dead stems of grass. July. 



The exterior is of a brick-red colour, the hairs with which it is covered 

 being white at their tips. 



2060. Peziza apala. B. ^' B?: " Pale rush Peziza." 



Minute, scattered or crowded, cups with the stem obconical, 

 externally furfuraceo-villous, fawn-coloured ; hymenium plane , 

 darker ; asci clavate ; sporidia elongated, filiform, flexuous, 

 almost as long as the asci. — Ann. N.H. no. 561. Cooke exs. no. 

 287. Rahh.F.E.no.2h. 



On dead rushes. Feb, 



Externally resembling P. diminuta. Rob. (Desm. exs. no. 1538 J, but 

 more shairgy, of a less vinous tint, and with a plane, not concave hymenium. 

 The sporidia are filiform, and not merely oblong; the hairs, too, are obtuse. 

 —B.&Br. 



2061. Peziza clavariarum. Desm. " Clavaria Peziza." 



Sessile, black, very minute, scattered, globose, externally 

 bristling with long sette ; asci clavate ; sporidia ovoid. — Desm. 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. ii. vol. 8, t. 2, f.l. B. (|- Br. Ann. N.H. no. 563. 

 Peziza nigra, Sow. t. 307. 



On decayed Clavaria. Autumn. 



The cups are globose and black, so as, at a hasty glance, liable to be mis- 

 taken for a hispid Sphceria. 



2062. Peziza stxaminum. B.SfBr. " Grass Peziza." 

 Cups hemispherical, sessile, concave; margin incurved, ex- 



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