48 DISCOMYCETES. 
an inch thick, sometimes obsolete; pileus pale buff, 
thin, transparent, scalloped at the edge, shaped like the 
cup of an acorn, about 1 inch in diameter (Withering). 
- Name—Cupula, a little cup. 
Shrubbery, in mossy turf, Edgbaston (Withering) ; 
Apethorpe, Milton (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Caistor (Hen- 
derson). Bowood, Wiltshire (Mr. Currey). Salhouse, 
Norfolk (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Taverham, Norfolk (Mr. 
C. B. Plowright). Brockley Comb, near Bristol (Mr. C. 
Bucknall), Wrekin! Kingsland, Shrewsbury! Hereford! 
6. Peziza carnea (nov. sp.). Cooke and Phil. 
Cup cyathiform, rather thin, firm, glabrous, flesh- 
coloured, margin crenate, erect; stem rather long, 
slender, expanding into the decurrently wrinkled base 
of the cup; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 
13 x 6u; paraphyses filiform, curved at the summit. 
Peziza cwpularis—L. var. in Herb. Berk., Milton. 
Cup from 5 to 10 lines broad; stem from 3 to 6 lines 
high, and about 1 line thick. 
Name—Cavro, flesh ; flesh-coloured. 
7. Peziza muralis. Sow. 
Cup at first cyathiform, then expanded, nearly plane, 
firm, fleshy in the centre, thin towards the margin, 
glabrous, dirty brownish-white; stem short, rather slender; 
asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 14 x 8u; 
paraphyses filiform. 
Peziza muralis—Sow., “ Fung.,” t. 251. 
On clay. 
Cup from 2 to 7 lines across, nearly uniform in colour 
within and without, glabrous ; stem about 1 to 14 lines 
long, enlarging upwards into the thick fleshy base of the 
cup. 
“The larger ones herein figured were sent by favour 
of the Rev. Mr. Alderson, from some clay walls in his 
garden at Havingham, Norfolk; the smaller ones grew 
on some pipe-clay intended for modelling at my own 
home, Mead Place. They differ much in size, but agree 
