PEZIZA. 97 
Cup 23 lines broad. 
It can at once be recognized as wholly different from 
anything previously described. The cups were grouped 
on a spot five or six inches in length and two or three 
inches broad, on a decorticated trunk, saturated with 
water, in contiguity to Peziza scutellata (Dr. Cooke). 
N ame—Aex/Boe, the yolk of an $88 5 ; from its colour. 
Forden, Montgomeryshire (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 
82. Peziza glumarum. Desm. 
Cups crowded, sessile, when young conical, globose, 
covered with white flocci, becoming concave or nearly 
plane, glabrous, flexuose, orange-yellow; margin nearly 
lacerated, white; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, 
smooth, 18 xX 104; paraphyses linear. 
Peziza glumarum—Desm., “Ann. Se. Nat.,” 1841, 
xv. p. 129; “ Grevillea,” iii. fig. 77; Cooke, “Mycogr.,” 
39. Aleuria glumarum—Gill, “ Champ.,” p. 55. 
Exs.—Desm., “Crypt. Fr,” 1054, ii, 454; Rabh., 
“Fung. Eur.,” 2967. 
On chaff. Spring. 
Cup 2 to 5 lines broad. 
Name— Gluma, chaff; from its habitat. 
Batheaston, near Bath (Mr. C. E. Broome). Cliffe 
Pypard, Wilts (Mr. C. E. Broome). 
83. Peziza xanthomela. Pers. 
Cups gregarious, sessile, somewhat difformed; hyme- 
nium subconvex, lutescent; externally blackish brown ; 
asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic or oblongo-elliptic, 
smooth, 11—12 x 6p; paraphyses filiform, very slender, 
apices curved. 
Peziza aanthomela—Pers., “ Syn. Fung.,” p. 665; 
Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. 74; “ Grevillea,” li. fig. 86 ; Cooke, 
is Mycogr., ” 41, <Alewria " zanthomela—Gill, e Champ.,” 
" Exs—Rabh,, “Fung, Eur,” 815. 
On the ground i in pine woods, and on dead larch-wood. 
Autumn. 
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