106 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
A. CUPS GLABROUS FROM THE FIRST. 
98. Peziza omphalodes. Bull. 
Cups sessile, crowded, often confluent, slightly convex 
or plane, orange-red or orange-yellow, seated on a fuga- 
ceous white tomentum ; asci subcylindrical ; sporidia 8, 
broadly elliptic, eguttulate, smooth, 12 x 5—6u; para- 
physes filiform, stout. (Plate V. fig. 22.) 
Peziza omphalodes—Bull., “Champ.,” p. 264; Fries, 
“Sys. Myco.,” ii. 73; Karst. “Mon. Pez.,” 120; “ Myco. 
Fenn.,” p. 48; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2004; “ Mycogr.,” 
fig. 65 ; “ Grevillea,” iii. f. 50. Pyronema omphalodes— 
Fekl, “Symb. Myco.,” 319. Pyronema Marianum— 
Carus, “Nov. Act. N. C.,” xvii. 370. Pyronema confluens 
—Tul., “Carp.,” iii, 197. Aleuria omphalodes—GilL, 
“Champ.,” p. 48, ¢. 1 
Exs.—Karst., “Fung. Fenn.,” 256; Rabh., “Fung. 
Eur.,” 267, 708 ; Sacc., “ Myco. Ven.,” 268 ; Desm., “ Crypt. 
Fr,” i. 428; Fekl, “F. Rh.,” 1218; Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” 
326; Phil, “ Elv. Brit.” 109. 
On burnt ground and cinder heaps. Summer and 
autumn. 
Cup 4 to 1 line broad. It spreads in irregular 
patches, often covering a considerable space of ground 
where charcoal has been burnt. The white mycelium is 
conspicuous when the growth is recent; later on traces 
can generally be detected round the base of the cups. 
Name—ougarsde, the navel, cidog, appearance ; from 
the depressed centre. 
Rockingham Forest, Northamptonshire (Rev. M. J. 
Berkeley). King’s Cliffe. Apethorpe (Rev. M. J. Berke- 
ley). King’s Lynn! (Mr. C. B, Plowright). Bristol (Mr. 
Cedric Bucknall). Bredwardine, Herefordshire (Dr. M. 
C. Cooke). Caer Caradoc! Wrekin ! Shrewsbury, in my 
garden! Whitcliffe, Ludlow ! 
99. Peziza Piggott. B. and Br. 
Cup hemispherical or cyathiform, slightly concave, 
fleshy, firm ; hymenium pale brick-red, externally paler ; 
