310 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Scattered or gregarious, sessile, margin at first incurved 

 and closed, then concave or nearly plane, rather fleshy, 

 ^ f cm. across ; disc vermilion or pinkish-red, paler and with 

 an ochraceous tinge when dry, sometimes slightly umbilicate 

 and the margin drooping when old ; externally, and the 

 margin clothed with slightly thick-walled, usually more or 

 less wavy, septate or very slightly tapering, obtuse hairs, 

 pale brown below, becoming almost colourless as a rule at the 

 tip, 150-200 x 6-8 n; cortex parenchymatous, cells irregu- 

 larly polygonal, 914 p. across ; asci cylindrical, apex obtuse, 

 8-spored; spores 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, smooth, 

 narrowly elliptical, 16-18 x 8-9 //.; paraphyses septate, the 

 broadly clavate tips containing red granules. 



Peziza umbrata, Fries, Summa Veg. Scand., p. 351 ; Cooke, 

 Monogr., f. 137. 



On the ground. 



Distinguished among the red species by the narrowl}' 

 ellipsoid, smooth spores, and the slender, obtuse, usually more 

 or less wavy and comparatively thin-walled, pale marginal 

 hairs. 



Lachnea coprinaria. Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 244 ; Sacc. 

 Syll., viii. n. 721. 



Ascophores scattered or sometimes gregarious, hemi- 

 spherical and closed, becoming almost or quite plane ; disc 

 varying from orange-red to scarlet, -1 cm. across ; margin 

 more or less erect, fringed with thick-walled, tapering, 

 straight, septate, brown hairs 300-500 x 9-12 //.; cortex 

 parenchymatous, cells irregularly polygonal, very large ; 

 asci cylindrical, apex somewhat truncate, 8-spored; spores 

 hyaline, continuous, smooth, elliptical, ends obtuse, 17-19 

 X 8-9 p. ; paraphyses septate, tips clavate, filled with orange 

 granules. 



Peziza coprinaria, Cooke, Grev., iv. p. 91 ; Mycogr., 

 f. 149. 



On cowdung. Autumn. 



Cups 5 lines broad ; external cells of cup very large ; 

 marginal hairs long, simple, septate, -?/ mm. long, mixed 

 with others that are shorter, usually confined to the margin, 

 not branched or stellate. Cups remain flattened in drying. 

 (Cooke.) 



