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dry; in moist weather distending the small slit in the 
bark of the petiole till it attains its round form, when 
the margin projects over the edge of the fissure. 
Wherever decaying sycamore-leaves are found. 
Name—Zrumpo, to burst out; from its erumpent 
habit. 
Suscenus VI.—Pseupo-pezizaA. Fckl. 
Cups immersed, erumpent when moist, orbicular, 
glabrous, soft, plane or slightly concave; margin darker, 
sometimes bordered by the lacerated epidermis of the 
host-plant; sporidia subglobose, elliptic, oblong or pyri- 
form, (Plate VI. fig. 36.) 
Name—yevdde, false, and peziza; deceptive peziza, 
resembling Phacidium 
ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 
A. Sporidia subglobose. 
(a) On herbaceous stems ae »» species 48 
8, Sporidia elliptic or oblong. 
(a) On leaves or herbaceous stems .. » 49,50 
0. Sporidia pyriform. 
(a) On leaves... ee a sis » ol 
Key To THe Specrus. 
Hymenium greyish-white : on Euphorbia .. +» Euphorbia. 
Hymenium smoky-yellow: on Trifolium .. «- Trifolii. 
Hymenium pallid-testaceous: on Cerastium +» Cerastiorwm. 
Hymenium ochraceous: on Ranunculus .. -» Ranunculi. 
A. SPORIDIA SUBGLOBOSE. 
(a) On herbaceous stems. 
48, Mollisia Euphorbice. (B. and Br.) 
Minute, erumpent, sessile, brownish-black ; hymenium 
concave, white or greyish-white; margin prominent, in- 
curved; asci broadly clavate, narrowing abruptly at the 
base; sporidia 8, globose-elliptic, 84 long, and nearly as 
broad; paraphyses filiform, stout, clavate summits, filled 
with granular protoplasm. 3 
Peziza Euphorbie—B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist.” 
No. 1829; “Grevillea,” viii. p. 8. ° 
