OTIDEA. 439 



Specimen in Phillips, Elv. Brit., n. 14, examined. 



Cup ^ an inch to 1^ inch broad. The flesh is thick and 

 rather firm ; the exterior of the cup coarsely furfuraceous, 

 dark sooty-brown, but pale towards the subcrenate margin. 

 It is gregarious, and sometimes caespitose. The apices of 

 the paraphyses are filled with brown granules. (Phillips.) 



Peziza indiscreta. Phil. & Plow., Grev., vol. viii. 

 p. 99 ; Brit. Disc., p. 73 ; Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 305. 



Scattered or crowded, sessile, hemispherical, fleshy; disc 

 concave, blackish-brown, externally somewhat verrucose, 

 umber-brown, 10-16 mm. diameter ; asci cylindrical, 

 8-spored; spores elliptical, 1-2-guttulate, asperate, 16-18 X 

 910 [*.; paraphyses linear, septate, slightly thickened at 

 the apices. 



On the earth under lime-trees. 



Unknown to me. 



Excluded species. 



Peziza argillacea. Sow., Eng. Fung., t. 148 ; PhiU 

 Brit. Disc., p. 109. 



No specimen exists, and Sowerby's figure is not sufficient 

 for the correct determination of the species. 



OTIDEA. Pers. (emended.) 



Ascophore shortly stipitate or sessile, large, fleshy or 

 somewhat leathery, externally scurfy, villose, or almost 

 glabrous ; elongated and cut down one side nearly or quite 

 to the base hare's-ear shaped or irregularly contorted and 

 often caespitose ; asci cylindrical, apex rounded or slightly 

 truncate, 8-spored; spores obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, 

 continuous, smooth or rough, elliptical ; paraphyses septate. 



Otidea, Pers., Myc. Eur., i. p. 220 (as a subgenus of 

 Peziza) ; Sacc., Syll., viii. p. 94. 



The present genus as defined above is characterised by 

 the very irregular ascophore ; in some species it is erect and 

 ear-shaped, being cut down one side, and corresponding 

 with the genus Otidea as interpreted by some authors. In 

 other species the ascophore is only slightly oblique and 



