p. 356; Berk., “Outl.," p. 372; Cooke, "Handbk.," No.

2159.

On dead oak leaves.

Name-Punctum, a point, forma, shape; from the

shape.

Edinburgh (Dr. Greville).

32. Helotium phascoides. Fries.

Of a waxy or watery consistence, minute, pallid, with a brick-red tinge; head turbinate, plane; stem short, sub-equal.

Peziza phascoides-Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 138; "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 204. Helotium phascoides-Fries, Summa Veg. Scan.," 355; Berk., "Outl.," p. 372; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2136.

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On small mosses.

'Mr. Wilson's specimens are subgregarious and perhaps a less red tinge, as far as may be judged from the dry plant, but there is no doubt that they are what Fries intends" (Berk. in "Eng. Flo.," l. c.).

I have not seen this; it is not in Mr. Berkeley's herbarium.

Name-Phascum, the genus of mosses on which it

grows.

33. Helotium ochraceum. (Grev.)

Cup shortly stipitate or sessile, smooth, yellowishbrown, fleshy; disc paler, concave, plane, or convex, sprinkled with granular shining particles; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8.

Helotium ochraceum-Berk., "Outl.," p. 372; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2148. Peziza ochracea-Grev., t. 5; "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 204.

On the bark of a fallen tree. Autumn.

Plants minute, gregarious, of an ochery brown colour, globular and concave in the young state, and gradually becoming plane or even somewhat convex; substance thick and fleshy, not shrinking much in drying; margin depressed, rounded, entire, somewhat showing a tendency

to become lobed; barren or inferior surface smooth, rather rugose or puckered towards the root; hymenium or upper surface appearing as if sprinkled with minute shining particles, not unlike small grains of brown sugar; tubular cells containing the sporules, filiform, mixed with barren filaments; sporules 5 to 8 (Grev., l. c.). Name-Ochraceus, colour of yellow ochre.

Braid Hermitage, near Edinburgh (Dr. Greville) Shrewsbury (Rev. W. A. Leighton).

32. Helotium agaricinum. Berk.

Firm, dark green, convex, rather uneven; margin revolute; stem rather thick, obconic; asci long, flexuous, obtuse.

Peziza agaricina-Carm., MSS., "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 207; Cooke," Handbk.," 2127.

On decayed wood.

Plant 1 to 2 lines broad, very much resembling at first sight Helotium virens (Pers. in litt.), but on closer inspection quite different (“Eng. Flo.").

33. Helotium buccina. Fries.

Rather large, infundibuliform, dull yellow; stem thickened, striate, somewhat incurved.

Peziza buccina-Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 129; "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 202. Helotium buccina-Fries, "Summa Veg. Scan.," 355; Berk., “Outl.," p. 372; Cooke, "Handbk.," 2141.

On wood and pine branches. Rare.

Carmichael's original specimen (129, Kew. Herb.) is of an inch broad, high, and decidedly gelatinosocartilaginous. It is, to me, a Guepinia, there being no asci present. Carmichael considered it a Tremella.

34. Helotium sclerotioides. Berk.

Convex, umbilicate, clear red-brown, concave beneath, and confluent with the short obconic stem; asci slender; sporidia (?).

Peziza sclerotioides-Berk. in "Eng. Fung.," v. p.

208. Helotium sclerotioides-Berk., "Outl.," 371; Cooke, Handbk.," 2128.

On decayed wood.

At first sight resembling Sclerotium quercigenum ; about 1 line broad (M. J. Berkeley).

The only specimen under this name I have seen is in the Kew Herbarium, and it has no fruit.

Appin (Carmichael). Near Bristol (Mr. A. Leipner).

GENUS VII.-MOLLISIA. Fries.

Minute, sessile, urceolate, cupulate or plane; substance soft, rarely waxy; exterior glabrous or furfuraceous, even or plicate; sporidia 8, minute, globose, elliptic, fusiform or filiform, hyaline, simple or 1-septate. (Plate VI. figs. 32-36.)

Growing on vegetable substances.

For the most part darker in colour and softer than Helotium; the minute pore by which the cup opens visible from the first: Never hairy or even tomentose. Name-Mollis, soft.

SUBGENUS I.-NIPTERA. Fckl. (in part).

Cup sessile, concave or plane, soft or waxy, glabrous or granulose; sporidia ovate or fusiform, simple, sometimes 1-septate. (Plate VI. fig. 32.) Name-Niptrum, a basin; from the shape.

A. SPORIDIA OVATE, APICULATE.

1. Mollisia aquosa. (B. and Br.)

Cup at first closed, then expanded, plane, or slightly concave, greenish-brown, smooth; hymenium watery grey; sporidia biseriate, ovate, apiculate, 5—6 × 2·5— 3.5μ.

Peziza (Mollisia) aquosa-B. and Br. in “ Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1326, t. xx. f. 19; "Grevillea," i. p. 130.

On or with Sphæria hirsuta, on willow. January.
Resembling P. cinerea, but smoother and more con-

cave when young, with totally different spores. Cup *024 inch diameter, growing on Sphæria hirsuta, and its mycelium, accompanied by a brown mould, consisting of erect, simple, articulated threads, surmounted by a single oblong uniseptate spore, 0005 inch (12u) long; asci 002 inch (50μ); sporidia 0002 to 00025 inch (5 to 6μ) long, 0001 to 00015 inch (2.5 to 3.5μ) wide; bright orange when treated with iodine (B. and Br.). Name-Aqua, water; watery.

B. SPORIDIA OBLONG-ELLIPTIC.

2. Mollisia epithallina. Phil. and Plow.

Congregated, sessile, disciform, immarginate, pallidwhite; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, oblongelliptic, 8 × 2μ; paraphyses slender, slightly thickened upwards.

Peziza (Mollisia) epithallina-Phil. and Plow. in "Grevillea," vi. p. 24.

On thallus of Peltigera canina.

Name-í, upon, Sallos, a branch or thallus of a lichen; from its habitat.

King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright).

C. SPORIDIA FUSIFORM OR OBLONG-FUSIFORM.

(d) On wood.

3. Mollisia cinerea. (Batsch.)

Cups gregarious or scattered, at first urceolate, at length applanate, cinereous or nearly livid; margin entire, whitish, not unfrequently repand or flexuose; hymenium when dry cinereous, yellowish, or becoming blackish; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, oblong or subfusiform, straight or curved, 5—12 × 1—2μ; paraphyses filiform, slender.

Peziza cinerea-Batsch, p. 196, f. 137; Pers., "Obs.," ii. p. 80; "Myco. Eur.," i. p. 302; Wahl., "Flo. Suec.," ii.