A Manual of the British Discomycetes

p. 1030; Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 142; Sow., t. 64; With., v. p. 312; "Eng. Flo.," v. p. 205; Karst., "Pez. et Ascob.," p. 37; "Mon. Pez.," p. 158; Nyl., "Fung. Fenn.," p. 60; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2100. Peziza callosaBull., t. 416, f. 1; "Flo. Dan.," t. 1490, f. 2. Peziza salicaria-Pers., Myco. Eur.," i. p. 308. Trochila salicaria-De Not., "Disc.," p. 15. Mollisia cinereaKarst., Myco. Fenn.," p. 189; Gill., “Champ.,” p. 134. Niptera cinerea-Fckl., “Symb. Myco.," p. 292.

Exs.-Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," ed. i. No. 1421, ed. ii. No. 921; Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," No. 735; Cooke, “Fung. Brit.," No. 390, ed. ii. 382; Phil., " Elv. Brit.," No. 125; Rabh., "Fung. Eur.," No. 2116 and 1643; Roumg., "Fung. Gal.," 831.

On decaying wood. Autumn to spring.

Cup to 2 line broad. "Often crowded, equal or lobed, and waved at the margin; hymenium pale or grey, watery, paler towards the circumference; substance soft and sometimes almost gelatinous" (Grev.). This should be compared with Lachnella Schumacheri. Name-Cinis, ashes; ash-colour. Found everywhere.

4. Mollisia benesuada. (Tul.)

Gregarious or fasciculate erumpent, sessile, at first subhemispherical, then expanded, becoming convex, difformed, waxy; externally glabrous, watery cinereous; hymenium pallid or brownish; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia fusiform or oblong-fusiform, hyaline, 10 × 2·5μ.

Peziza benesuada-Tul., "Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1853, t. 15, f. 8, 9.

Exs.-Phil., “Elv. Brit.," No. 175; Rehm, "Asco.,” 756; Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," ed. ii. 653.

On dead branches of alder. Cups about a line broad. These burst out through the bark in little heaps, much crowded and difformed. The supposed spermatia are rarely to be met with. This is very near M. cinerea and M. fallax.

Name-Bene, well, suadeo, to persuade; from afford

ing evidence of the author's views on the question of reproductive bodies.

Near Ludlow, Salop! Neatishead (Dr. M. C. Cooke).

5. Mollisia discolor. (Mont.)

Gregarious, suberumpent, sessile, waxy, plano-patellate, externally umber-brown; hymenium wax-yellow; asci clavate; sporidia 8, fusiform, hyaline, 4-guttulate, 8 × 2μ.

Patellaria discolor-Mont., "Syll.," p. 190; Berk., “Outl.,” p. 373; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2169.

On dead wood; on branches of Cornus sanguinea (Mont.).

Cup to a line; crowded or scattered; when young subhemispherical, at length expanded; disc bluish or cinereous, or brownish; the pseudo-parenchyma consists of brown subglobose cells.

Name-Discolor, of various colours.

Var. Riccia (Sacc.).

Niptera Riccia-Sacc., “Myco. Ven. Sp.," p. 162,

t. xvi, f. 3–6.

Exs.-Sacc., " Fung. Ven.," iv. 33.

Differing in its mode of growth, having lobed margin. Gopsall! (Bloxam). Sutton Coldfield! (W. B. Grove). (b) On fir-cones.

6. Mollisia fallax. (Desm.)

Cups scattered or crowded, at first hemispherical, at length applanate, brownish-black; margin entire, subinvolute, paler; hymenium cinereous or discoloured brown; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, oblong or fusiform, straight, at length uniseptate, 10 × 2μ; paraphyses scarce.

Peziza fallax-Desm. (non Pers., "Myco. Eur."), Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1845, p. 367. Mollisia fallax-Gill., "Champ.," p. 119.

Exs.-Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," ed. i. No. 1420, ed. ii. No. 920; Roumg., "Fung. Gal.," 1253.

On cones of Pinus sylvestris.

Cuptoa line broad. This differs from P. cinerea (Batsch) in the browner shade, and always occurring on

cones.

Name-Fallax, deceitful; from its resemblance to

others.

Generally distributed.

7. Mollisia cyanites (nov. sp.). Cooke and Phil. Gregarious, minute, sessile, concave, then plane, black; margin fimbriate; hymenium bluish grey; asci clavate; sporidia 8, cylindraceo-fusiform, elongated, 5 to 7-guttulate, 25 × 3μ; paraphyses filiform, slender. On herbaceous stems.

Cupto of a line broad.

Name-κúavoç, dark blue.

Scotland (?); Klotzsch in Kew Herbarium. !

8. Mollisia atro-cinerea. (Cooke.)

Gregarious or scattered, sessile, slightly concave or plane; externally black, glabrous; hymenium cinereous; asci clavate; sporidia 8, fusiform or cylindrical, straight or curved, 5—7 × lu; paraphyses not seen.

382.

Peziza atro-cinerea-Cooke in Exs. " Fung. Brit.," No.

On herbaceous stems (?).

Cups to of a line broad.

Name Ater, black, cinis, ashes; from the black exterior and the ashy disc.

9. Mollisia Teucrii. (Fckl.)

Gregarious, sessile, watery transparent, very pale yellowish-white, somewhat ochery-yellow, at first nearly closed, excavated, becoming plane, orbicular, marginate, outside the margin scarcely pubescent; hymenium same colour, when dry becoming yellow; asci cylindrical, globose-stipitate; sporidia 8, cylindrical or fusiform, 8 × 1μ; paraphyses filiform.

Niptera Teucrii-Fckl., "Symb. Myco.," supp. i. p. 47.

181.

Exs.-Fckl., "F. Rh.," 2378; Phil., "Elv. Brit.," No.

On dead stems of Teucrium scorodonia, in damp places.

Cups 500μ broad, often crowded, when dry nearly black; asci with a subglobose base.

Name Teucrium, a genus of Labiacea.
Trefrew, North Wales!

10. Mollisia urticicola. Phil.

Gregarious, sessile, subhemispherical, becoming nearly plane, externally glabrous, pale rufous-brown; margin fimbriate; hymenium from pale cinereous to pale brown; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, fusiform or cylindrical, 7 × 1μ; paraphyses filiform, slender.

Peziza urticicola-Phil., " Elv. Brit.," No. 177.

On dead stems of Urtica, lying in a damp place occasionally inundated.

Cups about 500μ broad.

Name Urtica, the nettle, colo, to inhabit.
Shelton Rough, near Shrewsbury!

(d) On culms of Arundo.

11. Mollisia arundinacea. (D. C.)

Gregarious, erumpent, sessile, plane, orbicular, thin, waxy; hymenium pallid, becoming fuliginous; margin narrow, darker; asci cylindraceo-clavate sporidia narrowly fusiform, 10-15 x 2μ.

Xyloma arundinaceum-D. C., " Flo. Fr.," vi. p. 162; Eustegia arundinacea-Fries, "Sys. Myco."; "Elench.,” p. 112; "Grevillea," iv. p. 67. Stegia arundinacea-Fckl., "Symb. Myco.," supp. i. p. 328.

Exs.-Moug. and Nest, No. 983; Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," 11, No. 380.

On culms of Arundo Phragmites.

About of a line broad; usually seated on a blackish

or brownish space. When old the hymenium separates from the excipulum in the manner of an operculum, which led the illustrious Fries to place it in his genus Eustegia.

Name Arundinaceus, belonging to a reed.
Shrewsbury!

SUBGENUS II.—PYRENOPEZIZA. Fckl. (in part).

Cup erumpent or superficial, globose, then expanded, opening at first by a minute pore; glabrous or furfuraceous, often vertically plicate, black, cinereous, or dark brown (except elaphines); sporidia elliptic, fusiform or filiform, simple, rarely uniseptate, hyaline. (Plate VI. fig. 33.)

Name―¬~ρív, a kernel, and peziza; from the globose

form.

ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES.

A. Cups superficial.

(a) Sporidia elliptic or oblong

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B. Cups erumpent.

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