436 FUNGUS-FLOE A. 



desoription and exsicc, when he admits that the spores are 

 so very diiferent. Karsten's specimens, as I have explained 

 ander Peziza ancilis, are typical of the last-named species. 



** Epis]pore rougli. 



Peziza badia. P«rs., Obs., ii. p. 78; Cke., Myeogr., 

 fig. 226 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 68 ; Sacc, SylL, viii. n. 293. 



Gregarious or caespitose, sessile or narrowed into a very 

 short, stout, stem-like base and often more or less lacunose ; 

 subglobose and closed at first, then cup-shaped or more 

 expanded, margin entire or nearly so, the entire cup often 

 wavy, rather thick, 3-5 cm. across; disc dark brown, exter- 

 nally paler brown and minutely granular, often with a 

 purple tinge ; hypothecium and excipulum formed of stout, 

 septate, irregularly inflated hyphae, hypothecium compact, 

 excipulum spongy and cavernous ; cortex compact, the 

 hyphae running out in irregular lumps to form the external 

 granulations ; asci cylindrical, apex truncate, 8-spored ; 

 spores obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, elliptical, 

 with one large oil-globule, minutely warted at maturity, 

 15-19 X 9-10 fj, ; paraphyses septate, tips slightly clavate. 



On the ground among grass, &c., also on scorched places. 



Eeadily distinguished by the bay or umber-brown disc, 

 and the minutely warted spores. 



Specimen examined in Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 9. 



Peziza atro-vinosa, Ger. & Cooke, is a North American 

 species, and not British as stated by Saccardo— SylL, viii. 

 p. 83 ; it is allied to P. hadia, but differs in the coarsely 

 nodulose, elliptic-oblong spores. 



Peziza saniosa. Schrader, Joum. Bot., vol. ii. p. 64 

 (1799); Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 70; Cooke, Myeogr., fig. 299 

 (spores smooth). 



Ascophore sessile, flesh thick especially at the base, cup- 

 shaped and slightly contracted at the base, regular, margin 

 entire, up to 1 cm. across; disc varying from purplish- 

 brown to dark violet, externally minutely scurfy, brown 

 with a purple tinge ; excipulum entirely composed of thick 

 .interwoven hyphae; asci cylindrical, 8-spored; spores 



