PEZIZA 109 
Forres! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Glamis! (Rev. J. Steven- 
son). Roslin, Epping, and Eastbourne (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 
Attingham Park, Shrewsbury ! 
C. MARGIN FURNISHED WITH VERY DELICATE SHORT 
BLACK HAIRS. 
103. Peziza melaloma. A. and 8. 
Cups sessile, crowded, at first concave, then nearly 
plane, orbicular, or flexuose, dingy orange ; margin fur- 
nished with very delicate black fasciculate hairs; asci 
subeylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 15—18 x 10; 
paraphyses clavate at the apices. 
Peziza melaloma—aA. and S., “Consp.,” p. 336, t. 2, 
f. 5; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 69; “Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 190; 
B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist.” No. 88; Karst., “ Myco. 
Fenn.,” p. 66; Nyl, “Pez Fenn.” p. 16; Cooke, 
“ Handbk.,” No. 1995; “Mycogr.,” fig. 67; “ Grevillea,” 
iii. p. 53; Pat, p. 122, f 275 (2). Pyronema melalomum 
—Fekl., “Symb. Myco.,” 319. Alewria melaloma—GilL, 
“ Champ.,” p. 54,1 
. Exs.—Karst., “Fung. Fenn.,” 550; Rabh., “ Fung. 
Eur.,” 723; Fekl, “F. Rh.,” 1221; Rehm, “ Asco.,” 715. 
Cup 2 lines broad. The so-called “very delicate 
black hairs” with which the margin is furnished are, in 
the British form at least, merely prominent blackish 
brown cells, not hairs. 
On the ground, especially where fire has been, 
Autumn. 
Name—pedde, black, A@pua, a border ; black-margined. 
Coed Coch; Wraxall, Somersetshire; Ascot; Orton 
Longueville (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Glamis, N.B. (Rev. 
J. Stevenson). Lilleshall! and Caer Caradoc, Salop! 
Kew Gardens! (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 
D. DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
104. Peziza argillacea. Sow. 
Sessile, yellowish, even, at first urceolate, at length 
cracked and torn, rooting at the base, and hairy. 
