140 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



draceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong or subfusiform, 8 

 10 X 2 3/z ; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza concolor Phil, in " Grevillea," viii. p. 102 ; 

 Steven., " Myco. Scot.," p. 321. 



On hard decorticated wood. 



Cup -J to J a line broad ; stem | of a line long. 



Name Concolor, of the same colour ; without varia- 

 tion of colour. 



Torres, KB. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 



b. On herbaceous stems and grass. 



40. Hymenoscypha cyathoidea. (Bull.) 



Cup at first pyriform, then hemispherical, at length 

 expanded, thin, tough, glabrous, white or pallid, margin 

 entire ; stem rather long, flexuous, attenuated downwards ; 

 asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, narrowly fusiform 

 or linear, 5 8 X 1 1'5/z; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza cyathoidea Bull., " Champ.," p. 250, t. 416, f. 3 ; 

 Pers., " Syn. Fung," p. 662 ; " Myco. Eur," i. p. 284 ; Fries, 

 " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 124 ; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 202 ; 

 Nees, f. 294. P. pedicellataSow., t. 369, f. 4 ; Cooke, 

 " Handbk.," No. 2092 ; Karat., " Pez. et Ascob," p. 30 ; 

 Nyl., " Pez. Fenn.," p. 40 ; Gonn. and Rabh., iii. t. 6, f. 7. 

 Gyathicula vulgaris De Not, " Disc.," p. 27. Helotium 

 cyathoideum Karst, " M}^co. Fenn," p. 136. Phialea 

 cyathoidea Gill, " Champ," p. 106. 



Exs. Desm, Crypt. Fr," ed. i. 1061, ed. ii. 461 ; 

 Berk, exs. 158; Karst, "Fung. Fenn," 836; Fckl, 

 " F. Eh.," 1179 ; Phil, " Elv. Brit," 79, 80 ; Eehm, " Asco," 

 306 ; Roumg, " Fung. Gal," 832 ; Cooke, " Fung. Brit," 

 ed. ii. 377. 



On dead herbaceous stems, thistle, potato, Lychnis, 

 Heracleum, etc. 



Cup J to | of a line broad ; the stem about J a line long. 

 Scattered or gregarious, cyathiform, texture tough, when 

 quite young slightly pruinose externally; the stem 

 slender, variable in length. 



Name KvaOo^, a little cup, sTSoe, a resemblance. 



