PEZIZA. 107 
seated on a downy white tapesium; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia 8, elliptic, uniguttulate, smooth, 14—16 x 8—9n; 
paraphyses filiform, slender. 
Peziza Piggotii—B. and Br., “ Ann. Nat. Hist.,” No. 
769 ; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2067. 
On plaster ceilings. 
Mycelium white, downy, but not spreading very 
widely, running up the base of the hemispherical or 
eyathiform cups, which are about 2 lines broad; margin 
generally acute (B. and Br.). 
This is quite distinct from P. domestica, being larger 
and firmer in texture, and it has different sporidia. 
Name—After Mr. H. Piggot. 
Chelmsford (H. Piggot, Esq., in Herb. Berk.). 
100. Peziza hemastigma. (Hedw.) 
Cups sessile, convex, immarginate, smooth, pale blood- 
red; asci cylindracev-clavate, or clavate ; sporidia 8, 
broadly elliptic, smooth, 20 x 10u; paraphyses not seen. 
Peziza hemastigma—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. 74; B. 
and Br., “ Ann. Nat. Hist.,” No. 1159, t. 4, £ 20; Sturm, 
xxxili, t. 11; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2008; “ Mycogr.,” 
fig. 70. Octospora hemastigma—Hedw., “ Mus. Frond.,” 
t. 5, f. B 
On whitewashed walls. 
Cup 4 of a line broad. sci short, oblong, sub- 
clavate; sporidia biseriate, nearly globose. 
Name—aiya, blood, oriypa, a point; forming blood- 
like spots. 
Pen-y-Gwryd, North Wales (Mr. C. E. Broome). 
B. CUPS AT FIRST .CLOTHED WITH SLENDER FUGACEOUS 
HAIRS. 
101. Peziza domestica. Sow. 
Cups sessile,.gregarious, or densely crowded, at first 
wart-like, then conical or subcylindrical, at length cyathi- 
form, fleshy, salmon-coloured, clothed with slender de- 
ciduous hairs,and seated on a fugaceous white tomentum ; 
