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“When old it bears some resemblance to pale forms 
of P. atrata and P. palustris” (M. J. B.). 
Cups 200 to 300u broad, seated on a dark radiating 
tapesium. No hairs are discoverable on the cups in the 
original specimens. 
Name—Mutabilis, variable. 
Derry Hill, Wilts ! 
4, Tapesia Rose. (Pers.) 
Sessile, subcoriaceous, concave, subtomentose, bright 
brown, as ‘well as the tomentose subiculum ; asci eylin- 
draceo-clavate ; ; Sporidia 8, oblong-fusiform, 7—10 x 2 Ses 
paraphyses indistinct. : 
Peziza Rose—Pers., “Obs.” 2, p. 82; “Myco. Eur.,” 
p. 278; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,; ” ii. 7 109 ; c Eng. Flo.,” v. 
p. 200; Tode, if. 41; Berk., “ Mag. Zool. and Bot.,” No. 
10; Karst., “ Pez. et Ascob.,” p. 25; Nyl., “Pez. Fenn.,” 
p. 34; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2073. Tympanis obteata 
(Wallr.), var. pezizeformis—Wallr., “ Flo. Germ.,” ii. 
p. 428. Tapesia Rose—Fckl., “Symb. Myco.,” p. 301. 
Mollisea Rose—Karst., “ Myco. Fenn.,” p. 208. Lachnea 
Rose—Gill., “ Champ.,” p. 92. 
Exs.—Rabh., “Fung. Eur.,” nov. ed.,359; Karst., “Fung. 
Fenn.,” 276; Fekl., “¥F. Rh.,” 1874; Berk., exs. No. 157; 
Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” 477; Phil. “Elv. Brit.,” 30. 
On dead branches of Rosa canina. Autumn. 
Cups 4 a line broad; subiculum tomentose, broadly 
effused, indeterminate ; cups scattered or aggregated, at 
first urceolate ; margin inflexed, then greatly expanded, 
‘when dry corrugated and deformed. 
Name—Rosa, the genus to which the wild rose 
belongs. 
Appin (Capt. Carmichael). King’s Lynn! (Mr. C. B. 
Plowright). Clungunford, Salop ! 
Var. Prunicola. Fckl. 
Cups twice the size of those in T. Rose, very black, 
and the hairs more brown-black ; asci oblong, stipitate ; 
