50 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
teeth; stem elongated, rooting, very fragile ; asci cylin- 
drical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 20 x 9n; paraphyses 
filiform, clavate apices. ; ang 
Peziza ammophila—Dr. and M., “Flo. d’Algerie, 
t. 28, fig. 2; B. and Br., “ Ann. Nat. Hist.,” No. 1619; 
“Qrevillea,” v. p. 59; Cooke, “Mycogr.,” f. 100, 373. 
Aleuria ammophila—Gill, “Champ.,” p. 38. 
Exs.—Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” ed. ii. 645... 
Immersed in sand on the sea-coast, at the roots of 
Psamma, Autumn, 
Cups 1 inch high and broad; rooting stem 2 to 3 
inches long. The sand adheres so closely to the floccose 
exterior that it forms a complete coating, The whole 
plant is extremely brittle, and so much immersed in the 
sand as hardly to be recognized, 
Name—dppoc, sand, pidoc, loving; from its prefer- 
ence for sandy soil. 
St. Andrews, N.B.! (Rev. Mark Anderson), Brampton 
Burrows, Ilfracombe ! (Dr. T. A. Chapman). 
10. Peziza rapulum. Bull. 
Cup infundibuliform, margin at length broadly de- 
pressed, sub-umbilicate, thin, fragile, glabrous, transparent, 
varying from whitish straw-coloured to nearly fulvous ; 
stem slender, elongated, rooting ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 
wrinkled ; the stem is 1 to 2 inches long, immersed in the 
ground, ordinarily furnished with fibrils, 
