60 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Cup scarcely an inch broad, very much resembling 
P, fibrillosa (Currey), but with decidedly different fruit. 
Name—Lewculentus, clear; from the colour. 
Near Sheffield (Mr. H. C. Sorby, F.R.S.). 
21. Peziza fibrillosa. Curr. 
Cup nearly sessile, irregular, orange, clothed ex- 
ternally with dingy-white downy fibrillz, which form a 
rather dense tomentose edging to the cup; asci cylin- 
drical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, eguttulate, 16—18 x 9u; 
paraphyses filiform, globoso-clavate. 
Pezxiza fibrillosa—Curr. in “Linn. Trans.” xxiv. 
p. 153; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 1977 ; “ Mycogr.,” fig. 207. 
On the ground. October. 
Cup 1 inch broad, often divided on one side; when 
young the margin is involute, afterwards erect; the 
exterior is very tomentose, nearly white. It resembles 
P. aurantia, but differs in having smooth sporidia and 
paraphyses with globose summits. 
Name—Fibra, a tibre; clothed with downy fibrille, 
Hanham Wood! (Mr. F. Currey). King’s Lynn! 
(Mr. C. B. Plowright). 
22. Peziza cochleata. Bull. 
Cup sessile, cxspitose, large, twisted, umber, ex- 
ternally pruinose; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, 
smooth, biguttulate, 16—19 x 7—8y; paraphyses filiform, 
often branched and curved at the summits. 
Peziza cochleata—Bull., “ Champ.,” t. 154, f. 2; Sow., 
“Fung.,” t. 5; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. 50; Gonn. and 
Rabh,, t. 2, £5; Secr. “Mycogr.,” iii. 296; “ Eng. Flo.,” 
v. p. 188; Berk., “Outl.,” p. 363: Cooke, “Handbk.,” 
No. 1971; “ Micogr.,” fig. 212; Weinm., “Hym.,” p. 416; 
Roumg., “Crypt. Illus.,” t. 265; Berk, Gard. Chron., 
1867. Alewria cochleata—Gill., “Champ.,” p. 42, @ 1 
Fungoides fuscum—Buxb., “ Petr.,” iv. =. 29, f.1. Peziza 
umbrina—Pers., “Obs.” i. 77; Sv., “Bot.,” t. 486, f. 2. 
Elwela ochroleuca—Scheeff., “Icon.,” t. 274 Otidea 
