| Author | Spooner, B. |
| Year | 2001 |
| Title | The larger Cup Fungi in Britain - part 3. The genera Peziza and Plicaria |
| Type | Paper |
| How Complete | All the British species known at the time |
| Source | Field Mycology Vol 2 (2): 51-59. |
| Illustrations | Colour photograph, line drawings of micoscopy. |
| Review (by Malcolm Storey) | Introduces some recent name changes to Peziza. Provides a "preliminary" key to Peziza and a key to Plicaria. The Peziza key was updated in The Forayer and the later version can be downloaded from the FRDBI website. |
| Errata, Corrigenda & Comments | Note that Brian interpets *P. violacea* (couplet 33) to have rough spores with two guttules (the common species formally called *P. praetervisa*), and *P. pseudoviolacea* (couplet 9) to be the taxon with smooth eguttulate spores (previously called *P. violacea*). |
| Examine |  Compound Microscope |
| Specimen Preparation | Spore, paraphyses, asci etc under microscope and stained in Melzer’s Iodine. |
