PEZIZA &7 
Cups 4 to 1 line broad. 
Name—Con, together, stella, a star; like groups of 
stars. 
Wrotham (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Doward Rocks, 
Herefordshire! (Mr. Spencer Perceval). Oram’s Hill, 
Glamis, N.B.! (Rev. J. Stevenson). Near Hereford! 
63. Peziza Polytrichi. Schum. 
Cup subsessile, orbicular, a little concave, cinnabarine; 
externally paler, clothed with fasciculate flocci; asci 
cylindrical; sporidia 8, globose, smooth, 11—13y; para- 
physes filiform, filled with orange-red granules. 
Peziza Polytrichi—Schum., “Saell.,” p. 423; “Flo. 
Dan.,” +. 1916, f. 1; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. 70 (non 
Karsten nec Nylander); Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” fig. 50. 
Peziza lewcoloma—Karst., “ Myco. Fenn.,” 63(2). Aleuria 
polytricht—Gill, “ Champ.,” p. 50. 
On the ground amongst Polytrichum. Summer and 
autumn. 
Cup 1} to 3 lines broad. 
Name—Polytrichum, a genus of mosses; from the 
habitat. 
On Tortula rigida, on a wall, Buckingham ! (Mr. E, 
M. Holmes). 
(8) Hymenium red, becoming brown. 
64. Peziza schizospora. Phil. 
Cups gregarious, sessile, urceolate, then applanate, 
red, becoming brown, externally pruinose ; asci cylindri- 
cal; sporidia 8, globose, guttulate, smooth, 124; para- 
physes filiform, summits clavate, filled with red granules. 
Peziza schizospora—Phil. in “Grevillea,” iii. fig. 59; 
Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” fig. 80. 
On burnt sandy soil. Autumn. 
Cup 2 to 3 lines broad. The nucleus of the sporidia 
becomes free when the epispore is ruptured. The external 
cells of the cup differ from those of P. hinnulea (B. and 
Br.), and it has not any short hairs as that species has. 
