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NEW AND RARE BRITISH FUNGI. 
127 Peziza (Humaria) cervaria. Phil. Stevenson, My co. Scot., p. 308 
Gregarious or crowded, sessile, thick in the centre, thin at the 
crenulate margin, chestnut-brown ; disc concave, waved ; asci 
broadly cylindrical, abruptly narrowed at the base; sporidia 8, 
oblong-ovate; paraphyses linear, forked at . the summits, abun- 
dant. 
Cups 1-4 mm. across. Sporidia -015 x *007 mm. 
This species closely resembles P. hepatica , Batsch., but differs in 
having much smaller sporidia, and slenderer paraphyses, which are 
not thickened at the apices, and are forked. 
On roe -deer’s dung. July and August. Grantown, N.B. 
Bev. J. Keith. 
128. Peziza (Humaria) bovina. Phil. Stevenson, Myco. Scot., p. 308. 
Gregarious, sessile, with obconic base, expanded, umber colour ; 
disc umbilicate, waved, with paler margin ; asci cylindrical ; spori- 
dia 8, oblong-ovate ; paraphyses scarce or none. 
Cups 8-12 mm. across; exterior cells of the cup very large; 
8 mm. in diameter ; sporidia 0T9 X '009 mm. 
On cow dung. Grantown. Rev. J. Keith. 
129. Peziza (Humaria) Keithii. Phil. Stevenson, Myco. Scot., p.308. 
Gregarious or crowded, sessile, thick, turbinate, concave, then 
expanded, dull salmon colour, smooth ; disc nearly plane, margin 
obtuse ; asci broadish, clavato-cylindrical ; sporidia 8, ovate ; 
paraphyses scarce or none. 
Cups 5-8 mm. across, external cells small, ‘01 mm. diameter. 
Sporidia *015-*018 x '007 mm. 
This species has an outline much commoner amongst Ascoboli 
than the Pezizoe , being thick and fleshy, with the hymenium but 
slightly depressed, the form of a flattened sphere. 
On horse dung. Waterford, Scotland. Rev. J. Keith. 
130. Peziza (Sarcos.) hirto-coccinea. n.s. 
Sessile, scattered or crowded, fleshy, hemispherical, then 
expanded, dull scarlet ; margin incurved, clothed with scattered, 
pale-brown, obtuse, septate hairs, longest on the margin ; flesh 
pale scarlet ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, ovate, with one or two 
large nuclei, *022 x ’Oil mm. ; paraphyses rather slender, clavate 
at the apices, filled with scarlet granules. 
The cups are 6-10 mm. across. The hairs below the margin 
shorter, often clavate, composed of a single cell. The white 
mycelium at times conspicuous below the cups. 
On mossy spots in the earth in pine woods. Forres. The Rev. 
J. Keith. 
j 31. Peziza (Dasyscyphae) crucifera. Phil. Gard. Chron., 1878, p. 
397 ,Jig. 71. Stevenson , Myco. Scot., p. 313. 
Minute, gregarious, stipitate, white ; cups at first globose, then 
expanded, clothed with short, septate, white hairs, with clavate 
summits crowned with cruciform crystals ; stem rather long, villous 
to the base ; asci cylindrical-clavate ; sporidia 8, cylindrical, or 
narrowly fusiform, straight, , 006- , 008 X '001 mm. ; paraphyses as 
