448 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Peziza onotica, Pers., Sym. Fung., p. 637; Phil., Brit. 

 Disc, p. 52 ; Cooke, Mycogr., fig. 210. 



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



Specimens examined from Sydow, Myc. March., n. 160; 

 Cooke, Fung. Exs., ed. ii. n. 365 ; and Fuckel, Fung. Ehen., 

 n. 1232. 



Differs from 0. leporina in the brighter colour of the 

 ascophore, and the straight paraphyses. 



Otidea aurantia. Mass. 



Sessile or protracted into a very short stem-like base, 

 caespitose and irregular, or growing singly and then circular 

 in outline and regular, becoming almost plane ; thin, brittle, 

 disc clear, deep orange or sometimes orange-red, externally 

 much paler, or sometimes almost white, with a pink tinge, 

 delicately tomentose, due to the presence of short, stout, 

 blunt, 1-2-septate hyaline hairs; varying from 1-8 cm. 

 broad; hypothecium formed of stout, hyaline, aseptate, 

 interwoven hyphae, passing into an imperfectly parenchy- 

 matous Cortex formed of subglobose cells 10-14 /a diameter, 

 these cells in turn give origin to the external hairs ; asoi 

 cylindrical, apex obtuse, pedicel slender, 8-spored ; spores 

 obliquely 1-seriate, broadly elliptical, hyaline, continuous, at 

 first smooth and 2-guttulate, then becoming ornamented 

 with very delicate ridges combined to form an irregular 

 network, 15-16 X 7-8 fx.; paraphyses slender, ending in a 

 clavate or pear-shaped "head 7-9 /x broad, filled throughout 

 their length with orange granules when fresh. 



Peziza aurantia, Pers., Obs., ii. p. 76 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, 

 p. 56 ; Sacc, SylL, viii. n. 253 ; Cooke, Mycog., fig. 203. 



On the ground, often near stumps or among chips. 



Sometimes crowded, large, with the margin raised and 

 very much waved and more or less incised, at others 

 scattered, smaller, almost or quite even and finally spread 

 flat on the ground. Easily recognised by the large size, 

 bright orange disc, pale, downy exterior, and the broadly 

 elliptical spores covered with a delicate network of raised 

 lines at maturity. 



Specimens examined from Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 12, and 

 Fuckel's Fung. Ehem, n. 1228. 



Var. stipitata, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 57. 



