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Sect. 1. HymenoscypTia. Stipitate, snbmembranaceous. 



2082. Peziza fizzna. Pers. " Ochre-brown Peziza." 



Cup infundibnliform, then dilated, repand, pale brown ; stem 

 long, attenuated downwards, becoming blackish ; sporidia sub- 

 elliptic, pointed at either end. — Fr. S.M.n. p. 117. Pers. M.E. 

 p. 211. Eng. Fl.Y.p.200. Gonn. ^- Pabh.iii.t.Q,/. 3. Lib. exs. 

 no. 228. P.ochroleuca. Bolt. 1. 105,/. 1. Sow. 1. 115. Cihoria 

 jirma. Fchl. Sym. Myc.p. 312. 



On sticks. Autumn. Common. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Gregarious, leathery wlien fresh, hard when dry ; cup \-\ in. broad; stena 

 |--2in. high. Yaryingin colour from whitish ochre to brown ; sometimes on 

 decaying acorns, covered with the soil. 



Sporidia (•0007 in.) "0177 m m. long. 



Sporidia ellipsoid, simple (sometimes spuriously septate) ■015-"021 X 

 •005--009 m.m. —Nyl. Karst. 



Sporidia ■004-'005 m.m. broad, and 4-5 times as long.— (7. <fc R. 



2083. Feziza Cuzreiana. Tul. " Sclerotium Peziza." 



Cups brown, very smooth, elastic, at first subhemispherical, 

 then infundibulifoiTu ; margin entire ; stem slender, fiexuous, 

 equal, smooth; asci cylindrical, obtuse; sporidia inconspicuous, 

 narrow, subcylindrical, sometimes slightly curved, and colourless. 

 — Till. Carp.i. p. 105. Cu7'r. Unn. Trans, xxiv. p. 495, t. 51,/. 

 17, 18. Linn. Journ. i.p. 147. Peziza Curreii. Berk. Outl. p. 370. 



On dead Juncus, developed from Sclerotium roseum. — Ann. 

 N.H. no. 163. 



Sporidia (•0004--0005 in.) •01--012 m.m. long. 



The Sclerotium is found in the pith of rushes, from which Mr. Currey found 

 the Peziza freely developed- (See Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. 1, p. 147.) 



" The cup was of a bright brown colour, varying somewhat in shape ; in 

 most it was hemispherical, in some infundibuliforru ; in one the edge of the 

 cup was erect, extending beyond the equator of the hemisphere, in others 

 the edge of the cup was recurved and sinuous. The number growing from 

 one Sclerotium varied from 2 to 13, and the greater the number the less was 

 the size of the individual. The diameter of the largest cnp was rather more 

 than one half, and of the smallest about l-16th of an inch. The stalk was 

 well developed, being generally about the length of the diameter of the cup 

 of a darker colour, and tapering somewhat from above downwards. In one 

 specimen the base of the stem at its jDoint of junction with the Sclerotium ^vsls 

 thickly covered with hairs." — F. Currey. 



2084. Feziza ciborioides. Fr. " Oak-leaf Peziza." 



Cup infundibnliform, even, dark rufescent ; stem very long, 

 thread-like, bright brown. — Fr. S.JL. ii. p. 117. Ann. N.H. no. 

 158. Mont. Ann. des Sc. Nat. 



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