PEZIZA. 93 
74. Peziza axillaris. Nees. 
Cup sessile, firm, fleshy, cupulate, orange, paler at 
the base; margin obtuse; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, 
elliptic, smooth, 12 x 5—6u; paraphyses linear, slightly 
incrassated upwards, filled with red granules. 
Peziza awillaris—Nees, “Sys.,” p. 258, fig. 267 ; Fries, 
“Sys. Myco.,” ii. 145; Pers., “Myco. Eur.,” 514; Cooke, 
“Mycogr.,” fig. 91. Leucoloma axillaris—Fckl., “ Symb. 
Myco.,” p. 318. 
Exs—Fckl., “ F. Rh,” 1176. 
On mosses. Spring. 
Cup 1 to 2 mm. broad. 
Name—Azilla, the armpit; growing in the axil of 
a moss. 
Scotland, 3000 feet above the sea (Rev. J. Stevenson). 
Clova (Mr. Gardner). Invercauld (Mr. C. E. Broome). 
Broemar (Mr. C. E. Broome). Rannock (Dr. B. White). 
75. Peziza pilifera. Cooke. 
Cups scattered, sessile, hemispherical, becoming ap- 
planate, orange-red ; externally clothed with evanescent 
web-like filaments ; margin connivent or erect, irregularly 
fimbriately cleft, pallid ; hymenium plane or a little con- 
cave, orange-red; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, 
smooth, 20 x 94; paraphyses filiform, obscurely septate, 
sometimes branched, apices sub-clavate. 
Peziza pilifera—Cooke in “Mycogr.,” fig. 92. Leuco- 
loma ascoboloides— Rehm, “Asco.,” 54; Winter in 
“Flora,” 1873 (not Peziza ascoboloides—Mont.; nor De 
Notaris ; nor Peziza ascoboloides—Schw.). 
Exs.—Rehm, “ Asco.,” 54. 
On the ground, Spring. ‘ 
Cup about 2 a line or more broad. 
The external hairs are so delicate and evanescent 
that they are seldom to be found on the dried specimens, 
and seem to be of the same character ag the delicate 
filaments at the base of Peziza omphalodes ; not to be 
