88 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Name—oyiZw, to cleave, oropa, a seed; from the 
splitting of the epispore. 
Wrekin, Salop! 
(y) Hymenium violet. 
65. Peziza violascens. Cooke. 
Cup subhemispherical, brownish-violet, whitish at 
the base, furnished with pallid rooting fibres; hymenium 
violet, plane, or a little convex; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, 
globose, uniguttulate, smooth, 8—9y ; paraphyses filiform, 
apices curved. 
Peziza violascens—Cooke in “Mycogr.,” fig. 83. 
Ascobolus Persvonii—Crouan, “ Flo. Fin.,” p. 56. Aleuria 
violascens—Gill, “Champ.,” p. 49; Boud., “ Ascob.,” 
. 67. 
On damp sandy ground amongst moss. 
Cup 2} to 3 lines broad, fleshy, glabrous, margin 
entire. : 
Name— Viola, a violet; approaching a violet colour. 
Shelton Rough, near Shrewsbury ! 
B. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC, 
(a) Epispore asperate. 
(a) Hymenium reddish-brown. 
66. Peziza vivida. Nyl. 
Cups substipitate, gregarious or scattered, fleshy, 
cup-shaped, rather deeply excavated, reddish-brown, 
externally paler, flocculose; margin entire, acute; asci 
cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, elliptic, very minutely 
granulate, 23 x 124; paraphyses septate, apices clavate, 
filled with red granules. 
Peziza vivida—Nyl. in “Flora,” 1865, p. 476; “Pez. 
Fenn.,” p. 22; Gonn. and Rabh., “Myco. Eur.,” iii. t. 4, 
f. 3; “Grevillea,” iii. p. 120, fig. 80; Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” 
fig. 53. Peziza Polytrichi—Rabh., “Herb. Myco.,” ii. 
p. 310. Alewria vivida—Gill., “Champ.,” p. 54. 
