2/6 FUNGI : DISCOMYCETES. 



Parasitical. Phascidium coronatum. 



Typhula erythropus. repandum. 



Peziza tuberosa. Rhytisma salicinum. 



■Ascobolus trifolii. acerinum. 



Phascidium patella. punctatum. 



vaccinii. 



(1.) Geoglosstjm viride. "Banks of Tweed near Melrose." 

 Prof. Walker Arnott. 



(2.) Peziza acetabulum. On the primrose bank in the planta- 

 tion above Newwater-haugh, May 22, 1845. 



(3.) P. RUDis. Berkeley in Trans. Berk. N. Club, ii. 190 ; and in 

 Ann. and Mag. N. Hist. vii. Ser. 2. p. 183. " Hab. Pease-bridge 

 dean, on a shallow gravelly and peat soil, with Polytrichum aloides. 

 — Whole plant of a watery yellowish-brown with a vinous tint, paler 

 when dry, of a rather firm texture. Cup |^-f inch high, ^ of an 

 inch broad, turbinato-stipitate, minutely fibrilloso-striate. Hymenium 

 plane, or more or less pitted and depressed, but not truly cupshaped. 

 Asci elongated, clavate, much attenuated below. Sporidia obovate- 

 oblong. Stem more or less elongated, angular, pitted, sometimes 

 striate. — Resembling somewhat in habit Pez. punicea, as figured by 

 Purton, Midi. Fl. tab. 25. Its closest affinity seems to be with 

 Pez. clavus. Alb. and Schw., and like that it has a tougher texture 

 than others of the section Mollisia. The sporidia in that species, 

 which is extremely variable as regards colour and form, are regularly 

 oblongo-elliptic, with a nucleus at either extremity, and not narrower 

 at one end as in the present species." Berkeley. 



(4.) P. ANOMALA. I regret that, from incorrect observation of this 

 species, I have unfortunately introduced two spurious plants into the 

 British Flora, viz. Trichia faginea and Peziza fagiuea. The blunder 

 has been corrected by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley in Hooker's Brit. 

 Flora, ii. 2. p. 199. 



(5.) P. JoHNSTONi. " Sessilis ; cupulis globosis subturbinatis 

 demum tantum apertis rufis sericeo-nitentibus, subtus subiculo lato 

 nigro-fusco grumoso-piloso affixis. Berwick, Dr. Johnston." See 

 Plate XI. fig. 3. 



" Forming a uniform stratum on decayed sticks. Cups half a 

 line broad, at first brown and pulverulent, at length rufous, rather 

 thin with a satiny lustre, subturbinate, vsdth the margin permanently 

 inflected, at first quite closed. Subiculum granulated, grumous, 

 obscurely floccose. — I have seen no other specimen of this remark- 

 able species, which has some resemblance to P. fusca, but is in 

 reality extremely different, and has rather a tropical than a Euro- 

 pean habit. If the figure of P. fusca by Letellier be not exagge- 

 rated, it may possibly be the same species, but I am inclined to think 

 such is not the case. I have in vain waited to obtain further in- 

 formation respecting this species, and am now unable to give any 

 account of its fructification, as I cannot find any perfect asci." 

 Berkeley in Ann. and Mag. Nat, Hist. xiii. 356. 



The Morel (Morchella esculenta) and the Helvellfe are eatable, 

 but are not eaten. The Peziza coccinea is the most beautiful of 



