282 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Name—Sanguis, blood ; blood-colour. 
Beeston, Nottinghamshire. Shifnal, Salop. 
(B) Sporidia septate. 
8. Tapesia fusca. (Pers.) 
Subiculum formed of densely woven, brown filaments, 
at times widely diffused, at other times hardly visible ; 
cups scattered or gregarious, concave, brown, then plane, 
cinereous, mouth often paler; hymenium pallid-white, 
cinereous, or brownish ; externally glabrous; asci clavate ; 
sporidia 8, fusiform or oblong-fusiform, simple or 2-guttu- 
late, becoming pseudo-septate, 8—16 x 2—3yu. Peziza 
fusca—Pers., “Obs.” i. p. 29; “Syn. Fung.,” p. 657; 
“Myco. Eur.,” i. p. 272; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 109; 
Grev., t. 192; “Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 200 (in part); Cooke, 
“ Handbk.,” No. 2074; Nyl, “ Pez. Fenn.,” p.50; Karst., 
“Pez. et Ascob.,” p. 26. Tapesia fusca—Fckl., “Symb. 
Myco.,” p. 302. Mollisia fusca—Karst., “ Myco. Fenn.,” 
p. 207. Phialea fusca—Gill., “ Champ.,” p. 113. 
Exs.—Fckl., “F. Rh.,” 1593; Phil, “Elv. Brit.,” 77, 
Rhen, “ Asco.,” 153; Cooke, “Fung. Brit.,” ed. ii. 556. 
On wood. Spring and autumn. 
Cups about 3} a line wide. 
Name—Fuscus, brown, with a grey tinge. 
Near Shrewsbury! Hereford! Very common. 
9. Tapesia Johnstoni. (Berk.) 
Sessile ; cups globose or subturbinate, at length open 
and rufous, with a satiny lustre, attached beneath to a 
broad, black-brown, grumous subiculum. 
Peziza Johnstoni—Berk., “ Ann. Nat. Hist.,” No. 313. 
On fallen branches. 
“Forming a uniform stratum on decayed sticks. Cups 
half a line broad, at first brown and pulverulent, at length 
rufous, rather thin, with a satiny lustre, subturbinate, 
with the margin permanently inflected, at first quite 
closed; subiculum granulated, grumous, obscurely floccose” 
(M. J.B). f 
