180 Rev. M. J. Berkeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on British Fungi. 



Nov., Dec. 1845. Apparently the same species occurs on damp 

 wood, on water-buts, &c. 



Cups at first globose, tlien hemispherical, at length expanded, 

 \-^ an inch broad, pale watery brown or cinereous, sessile, 

 springing from a white cottony effused stratum. Asci linear; 

 sporidia widely elliptic, eudochrome uniform, without any distinct 

 nucleus. 



This resembles somewhat Peziza muralis, but it has no stem. 



556. P. luteo-nitens, n. s. Conferta, luteo-nitens, cupulis con- 

 cavis subregularibus demum flexuosis. On the bare ground. 

 King's Chffe. 



Bright orange-yellow, when very young globose, then concave, 

 gradually becoming irregular, and at length flexuous, smooth 

 externally, \-^ inch broad. Asci linear, sporidia elliptic with two 

 nuclei. Paraphyses filiform ; apices slightly clavate. 



Resembling at first sight stunted specimens of Pez. aurantia, 

 but essentially different, not only as proved by the habit, but the 

 smooth, not echinulate or pointed spores. We cannot find any 

 description of this species. 



557. P. hirta, Schum, Ssell. p. 422. On the ground, Wim- 

 bledon Common; South Wales, C. E. Broome; AVareham, Rev. 

 W. Smith. 



Differing from P. trechispora in its smooth elliptic sporidia. 

 P. umbrosa, Rab. no. 101 1, appears to be the same species. We 

 have a similar species from South Carolina with globose smooth 

 spores which has been named P. sphcEroplea. Whatever Schra- 

 der's species may be, it cannot be the species of Rabenhorst, 

 which certainly belongs to a different section. 



558. P.Iivida, Schum, Fl. Stell. vol. ii. p. 422; El. Dan. 

 tab. 1915. fig. 3. On fir chips, Lockerbie, Sir W. Jardine, 1834. 



A beautiful species with the habit of P. scutellata, but with a 

 livid disc and more convex. 



559. P. ciliaris, Schrad. Journ. 1799, vol.ii. p. 63; Fr. Syst. 

 Myc. vol. ii. p. 89. On dead oak-leaves. King's Cliffe, &c. 



560. P. albo-testacea, Desm. Exs. no. 1415. On dead stems of 

 grass, July 1840, King's Cliffe. 



561. P. apala, n. s. Minuta sparsa vel conferta, cupulis cum 

 stipite obconicis extus furfuraceo-villosis cervinis ; hymenio piano 

 obscuriore ; ascis clavatis, sporidiis elongatis filiformibus flexu- 

 osis. On dead rushes, Spye Park, Batheaston, Feb. 1850 : 

 abundant. 



Minute, scattered or crowded ; stem not very distinct, conflu- 

 ent, with the cup obconical or subcylindrical, shaggy with flex- 

 uous hairs, as is the cup, pale fawn-coloured. Hymenium flat, 

 darker. Asci clavate, sporidia filiform, flexuous, almost as long 

 as the asci. 



