52 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
B. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC, SMOOTH. 
12. Peziza onotica. Pers. 
Cup substipitate, elongated on one side, ear-shaped, 
externally mealy; hymenium rosy or orange; base at 
length rugose; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, 
smooth, 1 to 2-guttulate, 14 x 84; paraphyses thickened 
at the summits. 
Peziza onotica—Pers. “Syn. Fung.,” p. 637; Fries, 
“Sys. Myoo.,” ii. p. 48; “Eng. Flo.” v. p. 187; Berk., 
“Outl,” p. 363; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 1974; “ Mycogr.,” 
f. 210; Karst, “Myco. Fenn.” p. 41; Ditm. in Sturm., 
“Flo.,” ili. t. 16; Sv., “ Bot.,” t. 486, f. 1; Weberb., t. 1, 
f.6; Gonn. and Rabh., t. 2, £ 1; “Flo. Boruss.,” t. 396; 
Weinm., p. 414; Cooke, “Mycoer.,” fig. 210. Peziza 
leporina—Sow., “Fung,” t. 79. Peziza rosea—Schum., 
“Saell.,” p.416. Pezizu caligata—Nyl., “Pez. Fenn.,” p. 8. 
Peziza unicisa—Peck, “ Reports of N. Y. St. Mus.” 
Otidea, onotica—Fckl, “Symb. Myco.,” 329. Peziza 
ochracea—Karst., “Mon. Pez,” p. 110. Alewria onotica 
—Gill,, “Champ.,” p. 40, ¢. i. 
Exs.—Fckl., “F. Rh.,” 1232; Cooke, “Fung. Brit.,” 
ii. 365 ; Rabh., “ Fung. Eur.,” 215 ; Winter, “ Fungi Eur.,” 
2313. 
On the ground amongst leaves, in woods. Summer 
and autumn. 
Cup 1 to 3 inches high and 1 to 2} inches broad, 
most variable in form, sometimes nearly equal-sided and 
entire, but generally elongated on one side; exterior pale 
fulvous; disc pale orange. 
The species with which it is most easily confounded 
is Peziza leporina, from which it is always to be dis- 
tinguished by the colour of the disc and the straight 
paraphyses. 
Name—dvog, an ass; like the ear of an ass. 
Clopthill, Bedford (Rev. C. Abbott). Sir Wm. 
Jenningham’s plantation, Norwich (Sowerby). Dorking; 
Laxton, Northamptonshire ; Lea, King’s Cliffe (Rev. M. 
J. Berkeley). Suffolk (D. Stock). Near Bristol (Herb., 
