100 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
88. Peziza misture. Phil. 
Cups crowded or scattered, sessile, concave when dry, 
applanate when moist, submarginate, chestnut-brown, 
glabrous; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, broadly 
elliptic, or subglobose, uniguttulate, smooth, 14—16 x 11p; 
paraphyses 1 to 6 times branched, apices pyriform, or 
sometimes nearly moniliform or linear. 
Peziza misture—Phil. in Gard. Chron. fig. 58, 
Sept. 4, 1880. 
On a mixture of lime and cow-dung spread on the 
trunks of apple-trees. Spring. 
Cup } to 1} lines broad. 
The cells forming the exterior of the cup are narrowly 
cylindrical and parallel; the paraphyses are remarkable 
from their habit of branching frequently, and from their 
pyriform or moniliform summits, which characters dis- 
tinguish it from P. exidiiformis, to which it has a slight 
resemblance. 
Name—WMistura, a mixture; from its habitat. 
Clifton, near Bristol! (Mr. Cedric Bucknall). 
89. Peziza cervaria. Phil. 
Cups gregarious or crowded, sessile, thick in the 
centre, thin at the crenulate margin, glabrous, chestnut- 
brown; hymenium concave, waved; asci cylindrical, 
abruptly narrowed at the base; sporidia 8, oblongo- 
elliptic, smooth, eguttulate, 15 x 74; paraphyses linear, 
abundant, forked at the apices, 
Peziza cervaria—Phil. in Stevenson’s “ Myco. Scot.,” 
p. 808. 
On roedeer-dung. July to August. 
Cup 4 to 2 lines broad. 
This species closely resembles P. hepatica (Batsch), 
but differs in having much smaller sporidia, and slenderer 
paraphyses, not thickened at the apices, and forked. 
Name—Cervarius, belonging to a hart or stag; from 
its habitat. 
Grantown, N.B.! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Glamis, N.B. 
(Rev. J. Stevenson). 
