280 BRITISH DISCOMYCETHES, 
sporidia uniseriate, cylindrical, obtuse at the ends,straight, 
hyaline, 10 x 2u; paraphyses filiform, not clavate. 
Tapesia Prunicola—Fckl., “Symb. Myco.,” p. 302. 
Exs.—Fckl, “ F. Rh.,” 1190; Phil., “ Elv. Brit.,” 300. 
On branches of Prunus spinosa. 
Name—Prunus, the genus to which the sloe belongs ; 
growing on sloe. 
King’s Lynn! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 
(8) Sporidia septate. 
5. Tapesia rhabdosperma. (B. and Br.) 
Subiculum thin, tomentose, pale, tawny; cups scat- 
tered, of the same colour ; externally paler, villose ; margin 
inflexed; hymenium brighter; asci lanceolate, obtuse ; 
sporidia 8, filiform, multiguttulate, 65 x 34; paraphyses 
slenderly filiform, sometimes branched. 
Peziza rhabdosperma—B. and Br., “ Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 
No. 1621 ; “ Grevillea,” v. p. 61. 
On dead wood. November. 
Cups about 500 broad. 
This is so near Arachnopeziza awrata—Fckl. (“Symb. 
Myco.,” p. 304) that I am disposed to think it at most a 
variety, differing in its paler colour. The sporidia cor- 
respond exactly. 
Name—padoe, a rod, orépp, seed; from the form of 
the sporidia. 
Leigh Downs! (C. E. Broome). 
6. Tapesia aurelia. Pers.) 
Sessile, scattered, subventricose, golden-yellow ; subi- 
culum thin, whitish; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 
8, oblong or oblong-fusiform, triseptate, 14—20 x 83—5y; 
paraphyses slenderly filiform. (Plate VIII. fig. 50.) 
Peziza awrelia—Pers., “Myco. Eur.,” p. 270; Fries, 
“Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 107; “Eng. Flo.” v. p. 199; Nyl., 
“ Pez. Fenn.,” p. 50; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2065. Peziza 
Wauchit—Grev., t. 139 ; Pat., p. 126, f. 285. Arachno- 
peziza aurelia—F ckl., “Symb. Myco.,” p. 308. Patellaria 
