PEZIZA, 63 
Damp wall of Inverleith House, Edinburgh! (Miss 
Ada Balfour, after whom it isnamed), Garden at Dalston, 
London (herb. of Dr. M. C. Cooke). 
27. Peziza isabellina. Wor. Smith. 
Cup large, sessile, czespitose, fleshy, subglobose, in- 
ternally smooth, brownish yellow, with a shade of red, 
externally paler, subpruinose ; asci cylindrical; sporidia 
8, elliptic, smooth, 14 x 80; paraphyses linear, clavate 
summits. 
Peziza isabellina—wW orthington Smith in “Grevillea,” 
1, p. 136, t. 9; Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” fig. 241. 
On decayed coniferous wood. 
Cup 1 to 2 inches broad. 
Name—From the French isabelle, dove-coloured, or, 
as some say, the colour of dirty linen. 
King’s Lynn! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 
28. Peziza micropus. Pers. 
Cup substipitate, medium-sized, oblique, flexuous, 
rather fragile, pallid-fuliginous, externally furfuraceo- 
granulose; stem short, rather stout; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 15 x 94; paraphyses linear, 
slightly thickened at the summits. 
Peziza micropus—Pers., “Syn. Fung.” 642; Pers, 
“Teon. et Deser.,” t. 8, f. 3; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. 54; 
Berk., “ Outl.,” t. 22, £ 5; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 1983; 
Weinm., “ Hym.,” 418; Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” fig. 300; Pat., 
p. 121, f. 273. Pustularia micropus—Fckl, “Symb. 
Myco.,” 323. Aleuria micropus—Gill, “Champ.,” p. 204. 
On damp wood, beech, ash, and poplar, and decaying 
carpet. Spring and Autumn. 
Cup 4 to 1 inch broad, hemispherical, or sub-infun- 
dibuliform ; mouth oblique ; margin furfuraceo-tomentose, 
and the exterior granulated with large superficial 
squamules; stem 14 lines long, rather thick, or absent 
altogether. 
Name—uxpdec, small, rode, a foot; from the short stem. 
Fineshade, Northamptonshire (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 
