56 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Cups large, ceespitose, externally pruinose .. +. aurantia. 
2. : ‘ 
*\Cups small, solitary, externally smooth ae + luteo-niteus. 
3 Hymenium orange-red ; cup sessile .. ee ae leuculenta. 
*\Hymenium bright yellow; cup substipitate .. var. flavida. 
4, {Sporidia rough .. a “ee “its is » 5 
*\Sporidia smooth .. ts 6 a ai ve 6 
5, {Hymenium alutaceous, paraphyses linear... .. alutacea. 
(aemoninm dark umber-brown paraphyses linear .. badia. 
Hymenium pale ochraceous; paraphyses linear, forked ochracea. 
6 Hymenium umber-brown; paraphyses linear, forked 
“) or branched .. tis +. aie +e os 
Hymenium umber ; paraphyses clavate ae Bes 
Hymenium pale ochraceous, sessile ; on linen cloth.. linteicola. 
Hymenium pale ochraceous, substipitate; on wood... micropus. 
Boe brownish yellow, with a shade of red; on 
woo ae as oe ie 
cochleata. 
7 
7. 
isabellina. 
A. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC ASPERATE. 
17. Peziza aurantia. CEd. 
Cup subsessile, irregular, oblique; hymenium orange, 
externally somewhat pruinose, whitish ; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia 8, elliptic, biguttulate, asperate, 16 x 8u; para- 
physes clavate at the summits, full of orange granules. 
(Plate ITI. fig, 14.) 
Peziza aurantia—<Flo. Dan.,” t. 657, f. 2; Pers, 
“ Obs.,” 2, p. 76; Nees, “Sys.,” f. 279; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” 
ii, 49; “Eng. Flo.” v. p. 187; Huss, i. t=. 87; Berk., 
“Outl.,” p. 363; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 1975; “Brit. 
Fung.,” t. 1; Price, f. 42; Weberb, t. 1, £1, 4.2, £3; 
Gonn. and Rabh., t. 1, f. 3; “Flo. Boruss.,” t. 384; Seer., 
“Mycogr.,” ili. 294; Karst., “ Myco. Fenn.,” 43; Weinm. 
p. 414; Pat, p. 123, £278. Peziza awrantiaca—Hayzer. 
t. 72, B. Peziza cochleata—Batsch, f. 157. Peziza, 
coccinea—Scheeff, “ Icon.,” t. 148 ; Bull.,““Champ.,” t. 474; 
Sow,, “Fung.,” t. 78. Helvella coccinea—Bolt., t. 100. 
Peziza dichroa—Holmas,, “ Ot.,” ii. t.7. Aleuria awrantia 
—Fckl, “Symb. Myco.,” 325; Sace, “ Myco. Ven. Sp.,” 
167; Gill, “Champ,” p. 41, ¢ i. 
Exs.—FckL, “F. Rh.,” 1228; Desm., « Crypt. Fr.,” i. 
521; Karst., “Fung. Fenn.,” 142; Rabh., “ Herb. Myco. ca 
523; Phil, “Elv. Brit,” 12; Ellis, “N. A. Fungi” 836. 
Roumg., “Fung. Gal.,” 2769. rt 
