183 Rev. ]\1. J. Eeikeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on Biitish Fungi. 



567. P. echinophiUi, Bull. tab. 500. fig. 1. On fallen invo- 

 lucres of the common eatable cliestnut, King's ClifFe : abundant. 



568. P. striata, Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. ii. p. 133. On dead stems 

 of herbaceous plants : not uncommon. 



569. P. Cacuim, Pers. Myc. Eur. vol. i. p. 385. On seed- 

 vessels of Cheirunthus incana, Guernsey, Rev. T. Salwey. 



570. P. nitiduhr, n. s. Firmula, minuta ; aquose pallida sti- 

 ])ite brevi ?equali, cupixla subhemisphserica irregiilari farinaceo- 

 nitidula. On dead loaves oiAira ccespitosa, Batheaston, Jan. 1850. 



Scattered pale watery tan, firm, minute ; stem short, equal ; 

 cup slightly concave, at first subhemispherical, then nearly plane, 

 often irregular, covered with glistening mealy particles. Asci 

 filiform j spores minute, cymbiform ; endochrome sometimes 

 reti'acted to either extremity. 



Allied to P. clavellata, striata, Cacalia, &c., but distinguished 

 by its uniformly mealy surface, irregular shape, and depressed, 

 not elavate, cup. 



571. P. Straminum, n. s. Cupula hemisphjerica sessili con- 

 cava, margine incurvo, extus pallida farinacea, intus carneo-lutea. 

 On the dead sheaths of wheat and other Graminece, Fothering- 

 hay, King's ClifFe, Norths. ; Rudloe, Wilts ; on Juncus, Oxton, 

 Notts. 



Minute, not exceeding i of a line in diameter ; cups hemi- 

 spherical, concave, sessile or at length expanded, margin in- 

 curved; externally densely farinaceous, pale ; internally of a pink- 

 ish yellow or flesh colour. 



A very pretty species, which is distinguished from several 

 allied Peziza on Juncus and Graminece by its farinaceous, not 

 hairy, coat. 



573. P. caucus, Reb. Neom. p. 386. tab. 4. fig. 17. P. amen- 

 talis, Fl. Dan. tab. 3084. fig. 3. On fallen catkins. King's 

 Cliffe. 



Our specimens agree exactly with the figure in Pers. Myc. Eur. 

 vol. iii. tab. 30. fig. 3, to which we can find no reference. Peziza 

 amentacea, Balb. in Act. Taur. vol. ii. tab. 2 ; Rab. Exs, no. 1019, 

 is probably the same thing, and Peziza sclerotiorum, Libert, ap- 

 pears scarcely to differ. 



573. P. helotioides, Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. ii. p. 135 ; Fl, Dan. 

 t. 1855. fig. 3. On a dead branch, King's Cliffe, Oct. 1837. 



Our plant agrees very nearly with that of Schumacher, who 

 has alone described and figured the species. It is however of a 

 dull ochre rather than umber; the stem is vei-y thick, obcouical, 

 afld merely a prolongation of the pileus ; the hymenium con- 

 vex, the asci elavate, and the sporidia oblong, sublanceolate, 

 with two or more nuclei. If it be not the same with that of 

 Schumacher, it is certainly undescribed. 



