PEZIZA. 431 



and more or less covered with anastomosing veins or pits, 

 glabrous, 1 • 5-2 • 5 cm. across ; asoi cylindrical, apex some- 

 what truncate, 8-spored ; spores hyaline, smooth, continuous, 

 broadly elliptical, ends obtuse, often 2-guttulate, 16-18 X 

 8-9 fjL ; obliquely l-seriate ; paraphyses slender, septate, 

 brownish at the slightly clavate tips. 



On gravelly or sandy ground among short grass. 



Large, ^1 inch broad, hemispherical, at length partly 

 spreading", but always deeply concave, wholly black, but 

 deeper within, somewhat rugose at the base externally ; 

 margin entire. (Greville.) 



Specimen from Dr. Greville in Kew Herb., examined. 



Peziza sterigmatizans. Phil., Mycogr. p. 175, 

 fig. 304 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 80 ; Sacc, SylL, viii. n. 334. 



Ascophore scattered, sessile, closed at first then expanding, 

 irregular and wavy, m;irgin crenulate, umber or blackish- 

 brown, much contracted when dry, about 2 cm. across ; 

 hypothecium dense, excipulum formed of very large, 

 irregular cells; asci elongated, cylindrical, apex rounded, 

 8-spored ; spores irregularly l-seriate. hyaline, smooth, 

 continuous, elliptical, ends obtuse, 18 X 10-11 /t; paraphyses 

 septate, slightly clavate, often with short lateral branchlets 

 near the apex, or furcate. 



On damp ground. 



Ascophores scarcely an inch broad ; paraphyses thick, 

 septate, clavate at the tips, either furcate above, or with 

 -short lateral branches or bud-like processes. (Phil.) 



Near to P. sepiatra, Cke., but the ascophore is rather 

 larger, the paraphyses more or less branched, and appears in 

 the autumn. 



Specimen from Phillips examined. 



Peziza venosa. Pers., Myc. Eur., i. p. 220 ; Cooke, 

 Mycogr., fig. 228 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 69. 



Smell strong, nitrous ;' sessile or contracted into a short, 

 stout, stem-like base; cup-shaped and with the margin 

 incurved when young, then expanding and the margin 

 becoming more or less split or lobed and wavy, 3-5 cm. 

 across ; disc umber-brown, externally whitish, minutely 

 gra-pular, and furnished with rather stout, anastomosing ribs 



