54 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Weybridge (Mr. F. Currey). Carlisle (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 
Newbiggin Quarry, Carlisle! (Dr. Carlyle). Castle 
Rising, Norfolk! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Abbots Leigh, 
near Bristol (Mr. C. Bucknall). Wrekin, Salop! Tibber- 
ton, Salop! Boreatton Park, Salop! General Cemetery, 
Shrewsbury! Kingsland, Shrewsbury! Dolgelly, North 
Wales ! 
14, Peziza auricula. Cooke. 
Subczespitose, fleshy, elongated on one side, ear-shaped, 
flesh-red, externally farinose ; asci cylindrical, stipitate ; 
sporidia elliptic, smooth, 22—28 x 12—14u; paraphyses 
clavate at the summits (Cooke). 
Peziza awricula—Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” fig. 213; Scheeff., 
“Teon.,” t. 156 (in part). Peziza leporina—Rabh., “Fung. 
Eur.,” No. 512; Nyl, “Pez. Fenn.,” p. 9; Karst., “ Mon. 
Pez.,” p.111. Aleuwria auricula—Gill., “ Champ.,” p. 40. 
Exs.—Cooke, “Fung. Brit.,” No. 473; Rabh., “ Fung. 
Eur.,” 512 ; Rehm., “ Asco.,” 652. 
Cup 1 to 2 inches broad and high. Resembling P. 
onotica in habit, but different in colour and fruit 
(Cooke, I. ¢.). 
Name—Auricula, the ear; from its shape. 
Ross, Herefordshire ! 
15. Peziza apophysata. Cooke and Phil. 
Cup sessile, unequal, lobed, subcontorted, elongated 
on one side, externally umber-brown; hymenium blackisb- 
brown, smooth; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, 
2-guttulate, smooth, 20—22 x 12u; paraphyses slender, 
forked near the summits, subclavate. 
Peziza apophysata—Cooke and Phil. in “ Grevillea” 
(1876), v. p. 60; Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” fig. 350. 
On the side of a wet ditch. Autumn. 
_ Cup } to 1 inch broad, cxspitose or gregarious, 
irregular in form, margin indented, erect; paraphyses 
branched in a peculiar manner. 
Name—arégiaic, an offshoot; from the branching 
paraphyses. 
Near Shrewsbury ! 
