122 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



The exterior is clothed with fine, adpressed, silky hairs ; 

 not glabrous, as stated by Desmaziere. 



Name Luteus, yellow, virens, green ; greenish- 

 yellow. 



Near Newport, Salop ! Wrekin, Salop ! 



B. SPORIDIA OBLONGO-ELLIPTIC OR FUSIFORM. 



(a) On fruit. 

 12. Hymenoscypha echinophila. (Ball.) 



Cup infundibuliform, then plane, fleshy, pale cin- 

 namon or subfuliginous, glabrous; hymenium rusty 

 brown ; stem paler, rather slender, more or less elongated, 

 at first subtomentose, then glabrous; asci cylindraceo- 

 clavate; sporidia 8, oblong or oblong-elliptic, curved, 

 often furnished at the poles with a short appendage, 

 having a globose head, 2 to 4 guttulate, 12 22 x 4 5/u ; 

 paraphyses filiform, slightly enlarged at the summits. 



Peziza echinophila Bull., " Champ.," ii. p. 235, t. 500, 

 f. 1; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 118; D. C., "Flo. Fr.," 

 ii. p. 82 ; Pers, " Myco. Eur.," p. 278 ; B. and Br., " Ann. 

 Nat. Hist.," No. 567; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2085; Pat., 

 p. 35, f. 85. Phialea echinophila Gill., "Champ.," 101, 

 c i 



'EXS. Phil., "Elv. Brit," 32; Rehro, "Asco," 606; 

 Rouing., " Fung. Gal," 648 ; Cooke, " Fung. Brit," ed. ii. 



367. 



On decaying involucres of chestnut. Autumn. 



Cup about 2J to 8 lines broad. 



Name t\ivos, a hedgehog, </>i'Aoc, loving; found on 

 spiny involucres. 



King's Lynn (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Norton Camp, 

 near Craven Arms ! Near Hereford ! 



13. Hymenoscypha subularis. (Bull.) 



Cup hypocrateriform, entire, fragile, lateritius or 

 pallid -brown ; hymenium darker ; stem long, slender, 

 flexuose, same colour ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 



