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placed in the same subgenus. In a more consistent 

 classification of the Discomycetes, this and the two pre- 

 ceding subgenera should be closely associated with the 

 series Phialea of Fries. 



Name Spi%, hair, and cr^u^oe, a cup. In allusion to 

 the hair-like processes with which the margin and some- 

 times the exterior are furnished. 



20. Hymenoscypha coronata. (Bull.) 



Cup at first pyriform or hemispherical, then cyathi- 

 form, glabrous, pallid or yellowish, margin crowned with 

 setaceous teeth ; stem slender, straight or curved ; asci 

 cylindrical; sporidia 8, fusiform, 15 20 X 3--4/z; para- 

 physes rather stout, enlarged upwards. (Plate V. fig. 26.) 



Peziza coronata Bull., " Champ.," p. 251, t. 416, f. 4 ; 

 Fries, "Sys. Myco," ii. 120; Pers., " Obs," ii. p. 36; 

 D. C, " Flo. Fr," ii. p. 83 ; Karst., ' Pez. et Ascob," p. 29 ; 

 and " MOD. Pez," p. 135 ; Nyl, " Pez. Fenn," p. 38 ; Cooke, 

 "Handbk," No. 2086; Gonn. and Rabh, iii. t. 6, 

 f. 9 ; Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 307. P. radiataPers., 

 "Syn. Fung.," p. 662; "Myco. Eur," i. p. 287; Nees, 

 " Sys. " f. 293. P. subulataSchum., " Flo. Dan.," 1. 1380. 

 P. dentieulataSchum., " Flo. Dan," t. 1016, f. 3. Helo 

 tium coronatum- -Karst, "Symb," p. 237; "Myco. 

 Fenn," p. 136. Phialea coronata Gill, " Champ," p. 110. 



Exs. Desm, "Crypt. Fr," ed. i. 872, ed. ii. 72; 

 Rabh, "Herb. Myco," ed. ii. 219; Karst, "Fung. Fenn," 

 146; Fckl, " F. Rh," 1183; Phil, " Elv. Brit," 121; 

 Cooke, " Fung. Brit," ed. ii. 379. 



On dead herbaceous stems. Autumn and winter. 



Cup J to 1 line broad ; stem J to 1J line high. 

 Scattered or gregarious ; whitish, pallid, or tinged with 

 yellowish brown. 



Name Corona, a crown. 



Shobdon, Herefordshire ! Frequent. 



Var. inflexa. (Bolt.) 



Whitish, teeth triangular. 



Peziza inflexa Bolt, t. 106, f. 2; Sow, t. 306; 



