slightly elevated and curved inwards; disc honey-coloured or cream-coloured, externally darker. Name-Mel, honey; from the colour. King's Lynn (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Cup medium size, stipitate, rooting, fleshy; hymenium slightly concave, afterwards expanded, then reflexed, generally corrugated, yellowish, buff, grey, purple, or pallid; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 10 × 5μ; paraphyses stout, enlarged upwards. Peziza undata-Smith in "Grevillea," i. p. 136, t. 10, figs. 1, 2; "Grevillea," iii. fig. 44; Cooke, "Mycogr.," fig. 279. On stems of tree ferns. May. Veitch's Nursery, Chelsea (Mr. W. G. Smith). 51. Peziza sepiatra. Cooke. Cups sessile or substipitate, gregarious, hemispherical, soon expanded, becoming applanate; hymenium plane, umbilicate, blackish-brown, margins lightly elevated; externally umber-brown, subfurfuraceous; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 20—22 × 11μ; paraphyses clavate at the apices. Peziza sepiatra-Cooke in "Grevillea," iii. 119, fig. 135; "Mycogr.," fig. 261. 105. Exs.-Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," 184; Phil., “Elv. Brit.," On the ground in damp, shady places; on roadscrapings, etc. Spring. Cup an inch broad, often less, rather brittle. The margin is minutely crenulated, incurved, and paler than the disc. The cells forming the exterior of the cup are 30μ diameter. Name-Sepia, a pigment, ater, black; brownish black. Shelton Rough, Shrewsbury! Baschurch, Salop! Henbury Churchyard, near Bristol (Mr. Spencer Perceval). Forres, N.B. (Rev. Dr. Keith). Epping and Highgate (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 52. Peziza subrepanda. Cooke and Phil. Cups scattered or gregarious, patelliform, fleshy, pale buff; externally paler, farinaceous; margin dentate; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 20 × 9μ; paraphyses filiform, scarcely thickened above. Peziza subrepanda-Cooke and Phil., “Mycogr.," fig. 260. On the ground, charcoal beds, etc. Cup scarcely an inch broad, very neat and delicate, pale fleshy tan colour, with a regular dentate margin. Name-Sub and repand, bent back; somewhat bent back. Near Shrewsbury! wood near Ludlow ! 53. Peziza sterigmatizans. Phil. Cup sessile, concave, becoming expanded and repand, variously contorted, black-brown; margin crenulated; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 18 × 9μ; paraphyses stout, septate, apices clavate, forked, shortly branched, hyaline. 304. Peziza sterigmatizans-Phil., Cooke's "Mycogr.," fig. On damp ground. Autumn. Cup scarcely an inch broad; paraphyses thick, septate, clavate at the tips, either furcate above, or with short lateral branches or bud-like processes. Name-ornpiyua, a support; the paraphyses being like sterigmata. On the side of a damp ditch, Shrewsbury! 54. Peziza cribrosa. Grev. Cup solitary, black, concave, attenuated downward, rugulose; hymenium full of lacerated irregular pores; margin entire; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, hyaline, smooth, 20 × 8—9μ; paraphyses septate, clavate apices. Peziza cribrosa-Grev., "Flo. Edin.," 423; Cooke, Mycogr.," fig. 381. Helotium cribrosum-Berk., Cooke's "Handbk.," ii. 713. On the ground in sandy or gravelly places amongst short grass. Autumn. Large,to 1 inch broad, hemispherical, at length partly spreading, but always deeply concave, wholly black, but deeper within, somewhat rugose at the base externally; margin entire, even (Grev., l. c.). Name-Cribrum, a sieve; from the pitted hymenium. Balmuto, near Edinburgh (Dr. Greville). Between Inverness and the west coast (Dr. Greville and Dr. Hooker in 1821). 55. Peziza exidiiformis. B. and Br. Cups gregarious, orbicular, lurid purple; margin elevated, inflexed; hymenium cribrose; stem incrassated upwards; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, broadly elliptic, biguttulate, smooth, 17 x 10μ; paraphyses subclavate at the apices. Peziza exidiiformis-B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1480; "Grevillea," iii. 120; Cooke, " Mycogr.," fig. 60. On silver sand and rotten wood. March. Cup 2 lines or more wide; contracting very much when dry. Name-Exidia, a genus of fungi, forma, form; from its likeness to an Exidia. Cork (Mr. D. Saunders). Stannage Park, Radnorshire (Mr. C. E. Broome). Glamis, N.B. (Rev. J. Stevenson). 56. Peziza violacea. Pers. Cups gregarious, fleshy, glabrous, at first globose, then campanulate, purplish blue, orbicular, regular, with a thick stem-like base; margin spreading, entire, subrepand; externally pallid, whitish at the base; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, elliptic, smooth, 12-14 x 7-9μ; paraphyses slightly clavate at the apices. Peziza violacea-Pers., "Syn. Fung.," p. 639; Fries, G "Sys. Myco.," ii. 65; Karst., "Mon. Pez.," p. 116; Karst., "Myco. Fenn.," 57; Nyl., " Pez. Fenn.," 14; Gonn. and Rabh., "Myco. Eur.," iii. t. 3, f. 2; "Grevillea," iii. fig. 34; Cooke, "Mycogr.," fig. 278. Aleuria violacea-Gill., "Champ.," p. 47. Exs.-Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," 455. Name- Violaceus, of a violet colour. 57. Peziza viridaria. B. and Br. Cup sessile, globose, then hemispherical, at length expanded, watery-grey; externally rough with brown furfuraceous particles; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, broadly elliptic, smooth, 12 × 65μ; paraphyses clavate at the apices, and filled with brown granules. Peziza viridaria-B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 555; Berk., “Outl.," 364; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 1988; Cooke, "Mycogr.," fig. 262. On damp walls and water-butts. winter. Autumn and Cuptoan inch broad, pale watery-brown, or cinereous, sessile, springing from a white cottony effused stratum. Name-Viridarium, a greenhouse; from its habitat. Wall of a greenhouse, King's Cliffe (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Clifton, near Bristol! (Mr. Cedric Bucknall). SUBGENUS IX.—HUMARIA. Cups sessile, entire, hemispherical, then flattened, rather thick, fleshy, mostly highly coloured. (Plates IV. V. figs. 19-22.) Name-Humus, moist earth; from the usual habitat. ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. A. Sporidia globose. (a) Epispore reticulated.. species 58-59 60 (Hymenium vinous-brown; cup sessile; paraphyses purple Phillipsii. 5. physes orange-red Hymenium red-brown; cup substipitate; para Hymenium orange-red; cup externally pallid (Hymenium orange-red; cup externally pale brown Chateri. maurilabra. vivida. rutilans. (Hymenium flesh-red ¡Hymenium dull salmon-colour Hymenium bright salmon-colour 6. Hymenium scarlet Hymenium yellow Hymenium brown Hymenium green 7. (Margin fimbriate; paraphyses branched, yellow Exterior of cup brown; hymenium orange-red 8. Exterior of cup pale, subfribillose 9. 10. Margin of cup ciliated with white deciduous hairs Paraphyses clavate, straight; exterior of cup yel- Jungermanniæ. axillaris. leucoloma. pilifera. 8 macrocystis. humosa. ascoboloides. 10 11 xanthomela. granulata. |