104 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
“Ann. Nat. Hist.,” No. 1481; “Grevillea,” iii. fig. 84; 
“Mycogr.,” fig. 32. 
Exs.—Rabh., “Fung. Eur.,” No. 1812; Rav. “Fung, 
Am.,” 174. 
On soil mixed with charcoal, and heathy ground. 
Cups 1 to 2% lines broad. The external cells of the 
cup are very large. 
Name—Fusus, a spindle; spores spindle-shaped. 
Berwick (Dr. Johnstone). Menmuir (Rev. M. Ander- 
son). New Pitsligo (Rev. J. Fergusson). 
Var. Aggregata. Berk. 
Cups gregarious, confluent, obconic, orange; base 
whitish tomentose ; hymenium concave; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia 8, fusiform, eguttulate, smooth, 28—30 x 8u; para- 
physes linear, apices clavate, filled with orange granules. 
Pexiza aggregata—B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 
1155; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 1998. 
On heathy ground. 
Cup scarcely 4 of a line wide. 
Name—Aggrego, to assemble; from the confluent 
mode of growth. 
Berwick (Dr. Johnstone). 
Var. Scotica. Rabb. 
Varying from nearly white to orange or blood-red 
(Steven., “ Myco. Scot.,” p. 305). 
On heath and turfy ground. December. 
97. Peziza Roumegueri. Karst. 
Var. Carnosissima. Phil. 
Cups crowded, sessile, extremely fleshy, poculiform, 
orange-yellow, glabrous; hymenium plane or very 
slightly concave, margin indistinct; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia 8, fusiform, smooth, 16—18 x 5u; paraphyses 
linear, apices curved, filled with orange granules, 
Peziza Rowmegueri—Karst. in “ Grevillea,” vii. p. 64. 
Var. carnosissima—Phil. in “ Grevillea,” x. p.67; “Scott. 
Nat.,” vi. 122. 
