432 REV. M. J. BERKELEY ON TWO NEW BRITISH FUNGI. 
There is a Peziza, figured by Jacquin in the * Miscellanea Austriaca, with a Very 
similar habit, which is referred by Fries to Peziza repanda, but which is probably nearly 
related to the present fungus. 
The variety may be thus characterized :— 
PEZIZA LANUGINOSA, Bulliard. 
Var. Summeri, Berk. & Br., cupula subhypogæa globosa profunde fissa. 
The species has been observed in abundance since the above date by Mr. Edmonds 
under Cedars at Chiswick House, and by Mr. W. Wilson Saunders under a Larch near 
Reigate. | 
The second fungus to which I wish to call the attention of the Society is a Peziza, : 
which appears to be identical with P. pygmæa Fr., and is remarkable for the extraor- 
dinary varieties of form which it exhibits. Figs. 7, 8, and 9 (Plate LV.) show the natural 
size and normal form of the plant, which has been found by Mr. Broome at Ascot and 
Wimbledon in Surrey, and on the Blackdown Hills near Taunton. Figs. 10 and 11 
represent proliferous forms magnified. Fig.12 is a more highly magnified figure of one 
of the cups of fig. 10; and fig. 13 represents the fruit, which is the same in the proliferous 
as in the normal form. Mr. Broome's notes of the Blackdown plants are as follows :— 
“ Stipitate about 4 inch high, the stem often splitting or branching out into several 
divisions, each of which is terminated by a minute cup, giving the plant the appearance 
of a Ditiola or a Tympanis. Each of these cups produces other smaller cups on its 
surface; the branched and young cups resemble the genus Solenia. "The colour of the 
mature plant was a bright apricot, whitish and tomentose at the base of the stem. It 
occurred in swampy places on rotten gorse, frequently coming through the ground, on 
mosses.” 
Mr. Broome informs me that in one of the Wimbled specimens the surface of a cup 
was one mass of minute secondary cups, giving the plant almost the appearance of à 
small Gyromitra. | 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE LY. 
Fig. 1. Peziza lanuginosa, var. Sumneri, natural size. 
Fig. 2. Section through cup, slightly magnified. 
Fig. 3. Filamentous portion of cup, more highly magnified. 
Fig. 4. Branched paraphysis, ditto. 
Fig. 5. Aseus, ditto. 
Fig. 6. Sporidia, still more highly magnified. 
Figs. 7, 8, 9. Peziza pygmea, Fr., the normal form, natural size. 
Figs. 10, 11. Proliferous forms of P. Pygmea, magnified. 
Fig. 12. One of the cups of fig. 10, more highly magnified, showing the secondary Cups. 
Fig. 13. Fruit of P. pygmea, magnified. 
