70 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Key to tHe Spectgs. 
Hymenium violet-brown ; juice violet .. * +s saniosa, 
Hymenium wax-brown ; juice turning yellow es ©8uccosa. 
86. Peziza succosa. Berk. 
Cup medium size, fleshy, sessile, hemispherical, pale 
wax-brown ; externally paler, pruinose; margin inflexed ; 
juice bright yellow; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 
biguttulate, asperate, 20 x 11—12u; paraphyses linear, 
thickened upwards. (Plate IV. fig. 16.) 
Peziza succosa—Berk., “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” No. 156, 
t. 10, f. 5; “Outl,” p. 863 ; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 1972; 
“ Mycogr.,” fig, 243; Kickx., “ Crypt. Flan.,” i. 495; Pat., 
72, f.166. Alewria succosa—Gill., “Champ.,” p. 45, ¢. i. 
Exs.—Phil, “Elv. Brit.” No. 10; Cooke, “ iung. 
Brit.,” ed. ii. 650. 
On the naked ground in damp and shady woods, 
Autumn. 
Cup 1 inch broad, subglobose, then hemispherical, 
sometimes cochleate, but generally entire, when moist 
transparent, pale brown; exterior mealy or pruinose, 
dirty white; the juice is limpid and nearly colourless 
when it issues from the wound, but soon changes to 
yellow ; the sporidia are certainly rough when mature. 
Name— Succus, juice. 
King’s Cliffe and Apethorpe (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 
Bristol (Mr. H. O. Stephens). Dovard Rocks (Mr. 
Spencer Perceval). Arkol Hill, Salop! Lilleshall, Salop ! 
Craven Arms, Salop! 
37. Peziza saniosa. Schrad. 
Cup sessile, thick, fleshy, campanulate, regular, 
purplish brown or dark violet; externally pulverulent, 
umber-brown or purplish-brown ; juice dark violet, 
abundant ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, biguttulate 
smooth, 15 x 7-54; paraphyses linear. ; 
Peziza saniosa—Schrad., “ Bot. J our.,” 1799, ii, p. 64; 
Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. 65; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 1991 
Berk., “Mag. Zool. and Bot.,” No. 87, t. 7, £2: Phil, in 
