92 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Name—2¢uxde, white, Apa, a border ; white-margined. 
Northamptonshire (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Near 
Bristol (Mr. H. O. Stephens). Shere, Surrey (Dr. Capron). 
Bathford, near Bath (Mr. C. E. Broome). 
72. Peziza humosa. Fries. 
Cup sessile, fleshy, between concave and plane, 
glabrous, blood-red; margin entire; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia 8, broadly elliptic, smooth, 22—24 x 10—12n; 
paraphyses somewhat branched, apices clavate. 
Peziza lwmosa—Fries, “Obs. Myco.,” p. 809; Fries, 
“Sys. Myco.,” ii. 71; “Eng. Flo.” v. p. 191; Cooke, 
“ Handbk.,” 2001 ; “ Grevillea,” iii. fig. 71 (not Fekl, “ F. 
Rh.,” 2290); B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 1156*, t. 3, 
f.15; Cooke, “Mycogr.,” fig. 25. Aleuwria humosa—Gill, 
“Champ.,” p. 56, ¢ i. 
Exs.—Cooke, “Fung. Brit.” i. 475; Rabh., “Fung. 
Eur.,” 715. 
On the naked ground. Autumn. 
Cup 1 to 2 lines broad. 
Name—Humus, moist earth; from the habitat. 
Bowood; Hanham; Ascot; Shere (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 
Near Hereford (Dr. M. C. Cooke). King’s Lynn (Mr. C. 
B. Plowright). Glamis! (Rev. J. Stevenson). Epping 
(Dr. M. C. Cooke). Pulborough! (Mr. Spencer Perceval). 
73. Peziza Sowerbet. Cooke. 
Cups substipitate, scattered, orange-red, externally 
paler, sub-fibrillose; stem short, attenuated downwards; 
asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 8—9 x 4 
paraphyses (?). 
eziza araneosa—Sow., “Fung.,” +. 365, fig. 5; 
“Grevillea,” iii. fig. 64; Cooke, “ Mycogr.,” fig. 55. 
Exs.—Rabh., “ Fung. Eur.,” 30. 
On bark and wood amongst moss. 
Cups 23 lines broad. 
Name—After Jas. Sowerby. 
Batheaston (Mr. C. E. Broome). 
