120 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Syd, "Mycoth. Mar.," 50, c. icon. Peziza glandicola- 

 Doass., " Revue Myco.," v. iii. pt. 10, p. 49 ; " Grevillea," 

 iv. p. 132, t. 65, f. 288. 



Exs. Rehm, "Asco.," No. 106; Doass. and Pat., 

 "Champ.," No. 13; Zopf. and Syd, "Mycoth. Mar.," 50; 

 Winter, Fungi Eur.," 2649 ; Ellis, " N. A. Fungi," 983. 



On decayed acorns. 



Cup 1 to 4 lines broad ; 3 to 7 lines high. 



Name I//EV))C, false, tuber, a tuber; appearing to 

 grow from a tuber, whereas it is an acorn. 



North Wootton, near King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plow- 

 right). 



9. Hymenoscypha amentacea. (Balb.) 



Cup stipitate, infundibuliform, then expanded, pale 

 brown ; externally paler ; margin tomentose ; stem slender, 

 more or less elongated, often flexuose ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic, 12 X 5'5/*; paraphyses filiform, some- 

 times clavate at the apices. 



Peziza amentacea Balb., " Act. Taur.," ii. p. 79, t. 2 ; 

 Nyl., " Pez. Fenn.," p. 37 ; Karst., " Pez. et Ascob," p. 28 ; 

 " Mon. Pez.," p. 131. Pez. julacea--~Pers., " Myco. Eur.," i. 

 p. 285. Ciboria amentacea Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 311. 

 Rutstrcemia amentacea Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 106. 



Exs. Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," No. 320; Fckl., "F. 

 Rh," No. 1178; Phil, "Elv. Brit," No. 116; Winter, 

 " Fungi Eur," 2964. 



On catkins of willow. March and April. 



Cup 2 to 5 lines broad; stem 1J to 10 lines long, \ a 

 line thick. The hair-like cells of the margin are 50^u 

 long, liSfj. broad, and continuous. 



Name A mentum, a catkin ; from its habitat. 



Almond Park, Shrewsbury ! Moncrieffe, near Perth ! 

 (Dr. Buchanan White). 



10. Hymenoscypha caucus. (Rebent.) 



Cup vasculiform, margin erect or incurved, flesh 

 waxy; externally pallid, becoming brown, glabrous; 

 hymenium umber-brown ; stem short, sometimes elon- 



