696 ELVELLACEI. 



On willow. Autumn. Appin. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Stem very variable in length in the same group, 1-2 lines or more high ; 

 cup 1-2 lines broad, when young villous, soon, however, losing its villosity. 

 —Eng. Fl. 



Sporidia oblong-ovate, hyaline, distinctly scrobiculate. — Fuckl. 



2079. Feziza siparia. B.d;Br. " Curtain Peziza." 



Cups sub-sessile, externally furfuraceous, ochraceous ; hy- 

 meniuui becoming brownish ; sporidia linear-oblong, curved. — 

 Ann. N.H. no. 772. 



On decorticated elm branches. Oct. 



Accompanied by a floccose stratum, which is, however, possibly not con- 

 stant. Cup at first sub-globose, then cyathiform, scarcely stipitate, but 

 fixed by a broad base, with the margin free, externally ochraceous, furfur- 

 aceous ; hymenium ochraceous, at length brownish ; sporidia ("00045 in.) 

 "012 m.m. long often with a nucleus at either extremity. At first with some 

 resemblance to P, jirma. — B. <^ Br. 



2080. Peziza ledi. A. d' S. " Arbutus Feziza." 



Sessile, globose or hemispherical, externally rugose, brownish- 

 black, mouth especially shining, greenish, covered with a com- 

 pact powder ; disc dingy. — Fr. S.M. \\.p. 114. A. ^ S. 1. 10, /. 

 7. Nees.f. 264. Ann. N.H. no. 160. 



On Arbutus Uva-Ursi. Sept. Glencoe. 



2081. Peziza leptospora. B. S^^ Br. '* Thread-spored Peziza." 



Cups at first hemispherical, then expanded, externally lurid 

 from the scattered, black, adpressed flocci, internally whitish ; 

 feporidia filiform. —5. (^' Br. Ann. N.H. (1866), no. 1166, t. 4,/. 30. 



On decayed wood. Jedburgh. 



About half a line across j at first perfectly globose, often collapsed in the 

 centre, but gradually opening and exposing the soft, pallid, sometimes straw- 

 coloured hymenium ; asci oblong ; sporidia very long and slender, filiform, 

 flexuous, with a row of globular nuclei, at length repeatedly septate. — 

 B.S'Br. 



Series 3. Phialea, Fr. 



Veil none ; cups waxy or membranaceous, quite smooth (or 

 very rarely mealy or sub-tomentose), soon open ; subiculum 

 none. — Berk. Outl. p. 370. 



Stipitate, membranaceous . . . Hymenoscypha. 



Sessile, waxy, soft Mollisia. 



Indurated, persistent .... JDurella. 



