68 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Mossburnford (Mr. Jerdon). Brockley Combe, Bristol 
(Mr, C. Bucknall). Near Shrewsbury ! 
34. Peziza coronaria. Jacq. 
Cup at first buried, then more or less exposed, sub- 
globose, splitting in a stellate manner, nearly violet or 
rosy, externally pallid; stem short, thick, rooting; asci 
cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, 1 to 2-guttulate, smooth, 
15—18 x 8—9u; paraphyses straight, linear, slightly 
enlarged above, sometimes forked. 
. Peziza coronaria—Jacq., “Mise. Austr,” i p. 140, 
pl. 10, 1778 ; Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” f. 238; Pat., p. 82, £77. 
Peziza amplissima—Fries, “Summa Veg. Scan.,” p. 349. 
Peziza eximia—D. R. and Lev., “Flo. Alger.,” t. 28, £9. 
Peziza geaster—Rabh., “Myco. Eur.,” t. 3, £5. Peziza 
macrocalyx—Smith in “ Journ. Bot.,” 1869, p. 345, t. 98; 
Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 1981; Kalch. “Icon. Select.,” 
t. 40, £2. _Peziza sicula—Inzenga, “Fung. Sici.,” t. viii. 
£4, Alewria eximia—Gill, “Champ.,” p. 48, ci. 
On the ground under trees. Spring. 
It is found underground, in forests of fir-trees, singly 
or from two to five together. In its progressive develop- 
ment it rises about half out of the ground. At first it is 
closed, but later it splits, star-like, from the top down- 
wards to the middle of its cup, or sometimes even further 
down still, into from 7 to 10 more or less pointed strips. 
The exterior is of a dirty pale blue, clothed with a thin 
white transient fur, and at the base of the cup is a short 
stem. In large specimens the cup is three inches high 
and broad, deeply cup-shaped, with the rim at length 
bent downwards. The hymenium is at first pale, and 
later a dark violet (Fresenius). 
“Oups very large, 4 or 5 inches when expanded ; asci 
very long ; sporidia uniseriate in the upper portion of the 
ascus, with one or two nuclei. After having been dried 
and then again moistened, the nuclei give the sporidia 
the appearance of being uniseptate. It was doubtless 
this illusion which led to the sporidia of Peziza eximia 
in “Flora d’Algérie,” being represented as uniseptate. 
