440 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



incised on one side ; others again are very mnch contorted, 

 vertically involute, and often clustered, forming the genus 

 CocMearia of some authors. 

 G-rowing on the ground. 



* Disc hrown, ochraceous or huff. 



Otidea leporina. Tuckel, Symb. Mycol., p. 329 ; 

 Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 349. 



Gregarious or often caespitose, ear-shaped or obliquely' 

 cup-shaped, margin usually involute, divided to the base on 

 one side, narrowed below into a short stem-like base, 2-7 cm. 

 high and broad ; externally pale ochraceous, or sometimes 

 like the even or rarely wrinkled disc subfemiginous ; 

 excipulum composed of densely interwoven, hyaline hyphae, 

 which run out at the surface into clavate, septate tips of a 

 pale brown colour, arranged in a parallel series ; some of 

 the clavate threads give origin to one or two short chains of 

 moniliform cells, and these give to the exterior a pulverulent 

 appearance; asci cylindrical, 8-spored ; spores obliquely 

 uniseriate, hyaline, smooth, continuous, 1-2-guttulate, ellip- 

 tical, 12-15 X 7-8 /A ; paraphyses filiform, septate, apex 

 slightly swollen, and usually strongly curved. 



Peziza leporina, Batsch, Elench., p. 117; Cooke, Mycogr., 

 fig. 211. 



On the ground in woods, among leaves, &c. 



Specimens examined from Phillips, Elv. Brit., n. 11 ; and 

 Eehm's Ascom., n. 653. 



Cup 1-3 inches high, 1-3 inches broad, gregarious, often 

 caespitose; margin involute, divided to the base on one 

 aide ; disc even or rarely wrinkled, a shade darker than the 

 exterior; paraphyses slender, hardly thickened at the 

 summits, but almost invariably crooked. This fine species 

 grows as large as 0. onotica at times, but is not so brightly 

 coloured, being throughout of a sober tan-colour, resembling 

 common wash-leather used for cleaning plate. (Phillips.) 



Otidea neglecta. Mass., Grev., vol. xxii. p. 66. 

 Gregarious, coriaceous and tough, constantly hare's-ear 

 shaped, narrowed downwards into a short, usually grooved 

 whitish stem-like base; margins at first involute and 



