118 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



No. 158; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2084. P. Friesii 

 Pers., "Myco. Eur.," i. 277. Phialea ciborioides Gill, 

 " Champ.," p. 100. 



On oak-leaves. 



This is retained on the authority of the Rev. M. J. 

 Berkeley, but, as no specimen exists, we are unable to 

 give any microscopic details, without which it is impos- 

 sible to satisfactorily determine what plant was under 

 the eye of Mr. Berkeley. There appears, indeed, much 

 uncertainty as to Fries's plant, for Dr. Karsten regards 

 Peziza bulgarioides (Rabh.) as identical with it, which 

 grows on fir-cones, and is a subsessile species ; whereas 

 Fries found his plant on culms, and describes it as having 

 a very long stem. 



Herman Hoffman, in " Analyticse Fungorum," finds a 

 species growing from a sclerotium on stems of clover 

 which he refers to this species. Rehm's Sclerotinia 

 ciborioides Fries (" Ascomy ceten," No. 107) agrees per- 

 fectly with Hoffman's plant, and may be described 

 thus : 



Cup convex, fleshy, brightish brown ; stem long 

 (1 inch), slender, flexuous, smooth, arising from a small 

 black sclerotium ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptical, 

 biguttulate, 14 16 X 5 6/ti; paraphyses filiform. 



From a sclerotium on Tripolium ' sativum. This, 

 which is most probably the true plant of Fries, has not 

 yet been recorded for Britain. 



Name Ciborium, a large drinking-cup, tTSoc, like- 

 ness. 



SUBGENUS II. CIBORIA. Fckl. (amended). 



Firm, stem rather long, cup at first infundibuliform. 



Growing on twigs or fruit. (Plate V. fig. 25 ) 



Differing from the preceding by not rising from a 

 manifest sclerotium, and from the following subgenus 

 by the generally smaller size. 



Name Ciborium, a large drinking-cup, elSoe, like- 

 ness. 



