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Leighton). Audley End, Essex (Leefe). Perth (Dr. M.C. 
Cooke). Weybridge (Mr. F. Currey). Little Plumstead 
and Cassey, Norfolk (Mr. Trimmer). Coed Coch (Rev. 
M. J. Berkeley). Sufton Court, Herefordshire! Lilleshall, 
Salop! Downton Castle, Salop! Mol-y-Golfa, Mont- 
gomeryshire! King’s Lynn (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 
13. Peziza leporina. Batsch. 
Substipitate, elongated on one side, ear-shaped, sub- 
ferruginous, externally farinose, pale ochraceous or sub- 
ferruginous; base more or less stem-like; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 1 to 2-guttulate, 12—14 x 7— 
8u; paraphyses filiform, curved at the summit. 
Peziza leporina—Batsch, “EL,” p. 117; Pers., “ Syn. 
Fung.,” p. 637; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” 1i. 47; Nees, “ Sys.,” 
f. 278; Berk., “Outl,” 363; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 1973; 
Weberb., t. 1, £7; Gonn. and Rabh., t. 2, £4; Weinm., 
p. 414; Cooke, “Mycogr.,” f 211. Peziza auricula— 
Scheetf., “Icon.,” +. 156 (in part); “Flo. Dan.” ¢. 1077, 
f 2. Peziza cochleata—Holms., “ Ot.,” ii. t. 6. Otidea 
leporina—F ckl., “ Symb. Myco.,” 329. Aleuria leporina 
—Gill., “ Champ.,” p. 40. 
Exs.—Fckl, “F. Rh.” 1233; Rehm., “Asco.,” 251, 
653; Phil. “Elv. Brit.” No. 11; Roumg,, “ Fung. Gal.,” 
9251; Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” ed. ii. 542. 
On the ground amongst leaves, in woods. August 
to October. 
Cup 1 to 3 inches high, 1 to 3 inches broad, gregarious, 
often czespitose ; margin involute, divided to the base on 
one side; 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 P. onotica at times, 
but is not so brightly coloured, being throughout of a 
sober pale tan-colour, resembling common wash-leather 
used for cleaning plate. 
Name—Lepus, a hare; from the colour or likeness to 
the ear of a hare. 
Milton, East Bergholt, Coed Coch (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 
