66 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
semi-pellucid, sometimes pallid near the base, at length 
expanded, almost plane; hymenium olive-brown ; asci 
cylindrical; sporidia 8, globose, smooth, 9—10u; para- 
physes filiform, gradually enlarged at the apices. 
Peziza leiocarpa—Curr,, “ Linn. Trans.,” xxiv. p. 493, 
t. 51, f£. 4 and 8; B. and Br.,“ Ann. Nat. Hist.,” No. 1062, 
t. xiv. f. 14; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 1985; “Mycogr.,” 
fig. 256; Pat, p. 70, fig. 163 (exclude sporidia and 
paraphyses). Plicaria foveata—Fckl., “Symb. Myco.,” 
p. 326 (2) 
On burnt ground. 
Cup 14 to 3 inches broad; hymenium at first pale, 
then dark olive-brown. Resembling at first Peziza 
pustulata (Batsch). 
Name—Adiog, smooth, xaprée, fruit ; from the smooth 
sporidia. 
Ascot! (Rev. G. H. Sawyer). 
B. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC, SMOOTH. 
32, Peziza repanda. Wahl. 
Cup solitary or czespitose, large, incised, and repand, 
internally subrugose, brown ; externally farinose, whitish, 
base elongated, rooting; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, 
elliptic, biguttulate, smooth, 18—20 x 10u; paraphyse: 
linear, sparse. 
Pexza repanda—Wahl., “ Ups.,” p. 466; Fries, “ Sys. 
Myco.,” i. 51; Grev., “Se. Crypt. Flo.,” t. 59; Berk , 
“Eng, Flo.” v. 188; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 1978; 
“ Mycogr.,” fig. 240; Weinm.,“Hym.,” p. 117. Alewria 
repanda—Gill., “Champ.,” p. 43. 
On old trunks and on the ground. Autumn. 
Cup 1 to 4‘inches broad ; cells of the exterior of the 
cup very large. This is one of the species with which 
many others have been confounded, so that it is very 
difficult to quote synonyms with any degree of cer- 
tainty. If regard be paid to the sporidia, great paucity 
of paraphyses, and large external cells, there should 
