HYMENOSCYPHA. 13J 



24. Hymenoscypha lutescens. (Hedw.) 



Cup stipitate, at first hemispherical, then hypocrateri- 

 form, yellowish; hymenium brownish, margin paler; 

 stem short or sometimes elongated, slender, flexuose, 

 subcylindrical, pale; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 

 8, oblong or oblong-elliptic, 12 15 X 4/z ; paraphyses 

 slender, filiform. 



Octospora lutescens Hedw., " Mus. Frond.," ii. t. 9, 

 f. 3. Peziza lutescens A. and S., p. 334 ; " Flo. Dan.," 

 t. 1440, f. 1 ; Wahl, " Ups.," p. 465 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," 

 ii. p. 120. Helotium lutescens Berk., "Outl," p. 372; 

 Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2134. Phialea lutescens Gill., 

 " Champ.," 157. 



On dead twigs amongst moss, etc. 



Cup ^ to IJ lines broad, and as much high. Gre- 



garious. 



Name Luteus, yellow ; yellowish. 

 Bloxham in Herb. Kew ! 



(b) On herbaceous steins. 

 25. Ilymenoscypha rhodoleuca. (Fries.) 



Cup piano, rosy-white, glabrous ; stem nearly equal, 

 slender, same colour ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 

 8, oblong or oblong-elliptic, 10 14x4^t; paraphyses 

 filiform. 



Peziza rhodoleuca Fries, " Obs. Myco.," ii. p. 306 ; 

 "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 127; Karst., "Fez. et Asco.," p. 31; 

 and " Mon. Fez.," p. 139. Helotium rhodoleucum Fries, 

 "Summa Veg. Scan.," p. 355; Karst., "Myco. Fenn.," 

 p. 128. 



Exs. Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," 152. 



On dead branches of Equisetum, in damp places. 

 Spring. 



Cup J- to f line broad ; stem varying from J to J a 

 line high. When young this plant is pyriform, but soon 

 becomes expanded, and at length plane or convex. The 

 colour is a beautiful rosy-white. 



Name poSov, a rose, Atwfcoc, white ; rose-white. 



Shelton Rough, near Shrewsbury ! 



