TAPESIA. 277 
B. Cups externally naked. 
(a) Sporidia fusiform or oblong. 
(a) Sporidia simple bee . Species 7 
(6) Sporidia septate or nucleate .. » 8 
Doubtful os » 9 
Key To THE SPECIES. 
Tapesium blood-red .. oe a e ++ sanguinea. 
Tapesium golden-yellow ai = i -» aurelia. 
Tapesium blackish-brown .. a ae we J 
Tapesium whitish .. as sc Se . 8 
1, {Growing on Aira cespitosa .. a & «. mutabilis 
‘\Growing on bark or wood .. a i se 32 
Cups glabrous; hymenium pallid-white, cinereous, 
2 or brownish .. a we “ ch .. fusca. 
*) Cups subtomentose ; hymenium cinereous .. .. Rose. 
Cups rufous, with a satiny lustre .. oe .. Johnstoni. 
Hymenium pale tawny as a3 a +. rhabdosperma. 
3. {Hymenium bluish-grey, sometimes black .. 1. cxesta. 
Hymenium whitish, when dry yellowish .. +. eriobasis, 
A. CUPS EXTERNALLY VILLOSE OR TOMENTOSE. 
(a) Sporidia fusiform or oblong. 
(a) Sporidia simple. 
1. Tapesia ceesia. (Pers.) 
Sessile, becoming plane, villous, whitish; margin 
obtuse ; base seated on a subiculum of long, interwoven, 
whitish mycelium ; hymenium subgelatinous, fuliginous 
brown or bluish-grey ; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 
8, cylindrical or oblong-elliptic, straight or curved, 
5—6 X 2u; paraphyses slenderly filiform. 
Peziza Lichenovdes—Pers., “Icon. et Dese.,” p. 29, t. 
7, f. 1. Peziza cwesia—Pers., “Syn. Fung.” p. 657; 
“Myco. Eur.,” p. 272; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 108; 
Nees, “Sys.,” f. 272; Dit. and Sturm., “Deut. Flo.,” iii. 
t. 81; “Eng. Flo.” v. p. 199; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 
2068. Tapesia cesia—Fekl., “Symb. Myco.,” p. 301. 
Peziza chavetie—Lib., exs. No. 26; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” 
No. 2069. Lachnea cesia—Gill., “Champ.,” p. 92. 
Exs.—Libert., “Crypt. Ard.,” No. 26; Cooke, “ Fung. 
Brit.,” No. 562, ed. ii. 555; Phil., “ Ely. Brit.,” No. 76. 
On chips of oak, etc. Autumn. 
