96 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
“Myco. Fenn.,” p. 45; “ Grevillea,” iii. fig.75 ; “Mycogr.,” 
fig. 46. 
i On the naked ground damp, and of a sandy nature. 
September. ‘ 
Cup 4 to 2% lines broad. 
Very much the colour of the soil, and buried half-way 
in the ground. The disc is more decidedly flesh-colour. 
Name—Semi, half, immersus, immersed ; half buried 
in the soil. 
Shelton Rough, Shrewsbury ! 
(y) Hymenium bright yellow. 
80. Peziza ascoboloides. Bert. 
Cups scattered or gregarious, sessile, concave, orange- 
yellow; hymenium same colour, papillate, granular ; 
margin furnished with white deciduous cilia ; asci cylin- 
drical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 18 x 104; paraphyses 
linear, apices clavate. 
Peziza ascoboloides—Bert. in Mont., “Syll.,” p. 185; 
“Flo. Chil,” vii. p. 402; Cooke, “Mycogr.,” fig. 352. 
Peziza eclecta—B. and Cooke in “Grevillea,” 1876, v. 
. 60. 
On the ground. 
Cup 1 to 14 lines broad. The few scattered hyaline 
septate hairs on the surface of the cups are evanescent. 
Name—Ascobolus, a genus of fungi, ef8oce, likeness ; 
resembling an Ascobolus. 
Sibbertoft, Market Harborough (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 
Shrewsbury ! 
81. Peziza lechithina. Cooke. 
Cups gregarious, sessile, egg-yellow, hemispherical, 
then applanate, becoming convex, margin narrow, distinct, 
crisped ; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 
25 x 124; paraphyses septate, apices clavate, filled with 
orange granules. 
Peziza lechithina—Cooke in “Grevillea,” iv. p. 110; 
“ Mycogr.,” fig. 89. 
On old trunks crossing a stream. Autumn. 
