ELVELLACEI. 693 



It first clotlies the places that have been wetted with a fine cottony or 

 membranaceous film, nearly as white as the plaister, which is in a short time 

 partly covered with salmon-coloured knobs. These at length form a kind of 

 upright Peziza, externally villous. — <S<)'(/;er6y. 



2067. Peziza Piggotii. B. <& Br. '« Piggot's Plaster Peziza." 



Mycelium white, downy ; cups nearly hemispherical, or cy- 

 athiform, slightly concave ; hymenium pale brick-red ; asci 

 cylindrical ; paraphyses linear ; sporidia elliptic, with a single, 

 very distinct nucleus, in the centre of which is a bright point. — 

 Ann. N.H. no. 769. 



On plaster ceilings. 



Mycelium white, downy, but not spreading very widely, running up the 

 base of the hemispherical or cyathiforra cups, which are about 2 lines broad; 

 margin generally acute ; sporidia ('0005 in.) "012 m.m. long, by ("0003 in.) 

 •0076 m.m. wide.— B. d; Br. 



2068. Peziza caesia. Pers. " Blue-eyed Peziza," 



Sessile, becoming plane, villous, whitish, base ending in a 

 subiculum of long interwoven hairs ; disc subgelatinous, bluish- 

 grey. — Fr. S.M. ii.p. 108. Fers. Syn. p. 657. Ic. ^ Des. t. l,f. 

 1. Nees.f.212. Sturm. ui. t. ^1. TapesiaccEsiajFckl. Sym. Myc. 

 /?.301. 



On chips. Appin. [Low. Carolina.] 



Also found in England by 3Ir. Baxter. — M. J. B. 

 Sporidia cylindrical, curved, hyaline.— ^c^^. 



2069. Peziza Chavetiae. Lil. " Dark-eyed Peziza." 



Gregarious, sessile ; cups minute, membranaceous, hemispheri- 

 cal, concave, tomentose, white, with long hairs at the base, in- 

 terwoven with the web-like subiculum, of the same colour ; disc 

 sub-tremellose, blackish-brown ; sporidia globose. — Libert, exs. 

 no. 26. Tapesia Chavetice, Fckl. Sym. Myc.p. 301. 



On chips. 



This resembles P. ccesia, but is known at once by the yellowish or tawny 

 tint which it assumes in drying. — B. df Br. 



It is doubtful whether the two may not be the same species. — JI.CC. 



2070. Peziza eriobasis. Berk. " Cottony Peziza." 



Gregarious, but generally distinct ; cups orbicular, tomentose, 

 fixed to little, round, snow-white, cottony spots, which are some- 

 times confluent ; when fresh white, when dry the disc has a yel- 

 lowish tinge; asci slightly clavate, or obtusely lanceolate; spori- 

 dia oblong. — Ann. N.H. no. 312. 



