PEZIZA. 75 
Cup 1 to 3 inches broad. It resembles Peziza 
vesiculosa, from which it differs in its more fragile 
texture, and rather smaller sporidia. 
Name—Cereus, like wax; from the beeswax colour. 
Uffington ; Coed Coch (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Twy- 
cross (Rev. A. Bloxam). Glamis (Rev. J. Stevenson). 
Forres (Rev. Dr. Keith). On tan, North Wootton! 
(Mr. C. B, Plowright). Ludlow, on tan (Mrs. Price). 
43. Peziza bufowia. Pers. 
Cup hemispherical, often fragile; hymenium bright 
brown, externally warty, of the same colour; margin 
entire or laterally incised ; stem short, rooting, becoming 
pallid; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 
20—24 x 10—12u ; paraphyses filiform, clavate apices. 
Peziza bufonia—Pers., “Myco. Eur.,” p. 225; Fries, 
“Sys. Myeo.,” ii. p. 54; Berk. Gard. Chron. Jan. 13, 
1866 ; B. and Br., “ Ann. Nat. Hist.,” No. 1154, t. 3, £ 12; 
Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 1982 ; “ Micogr.,” fig. 292. 
In moist woods, and on rubbish heaps. Autumn. 
A fine species, agreeing in size and colour with 
Peziza umbrina ; externally rough with conical warts, 
opaque, and of a dingy earth-colour, somewhat resembling 
P. vesculosa, but distinguished by the brown hymenium 
and verrucose cup. Sporidia -00075—-0008 inches (B. 
and Br.). 
Name—Bu/o, a toad ; warted like a toad, 
Grantham (Mr. W. Summerby). 
Suscenus VIII—GeroscypHa. Cooke. 
Cup entire, or lobed, sessile, externally even, sub- 
pruinose, sometimes quite smooth. (Plate IV. fig. 18.) 
Name—yn, the earth, cyv@oe, a cup. 
ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 
A. Sporidia elliptic, asperate ae .. species 44-45 
B. Sporidia elliptic, smooth .. on os » 46-57 
