HYMENOSCYPHA. 143 



D. SPORIDIA PYRIFORM OR RENIFORM. 



(a) On fruit 

 45. Hymenoscypha amenti. (Batsch.) 



Cup concave, then plane, at length convex, firm, 

 white, becoming greyish-brown ; stem short, enlarged 

 upwards ; asci eylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, subpyri- 

 form, 8 X 3/u ; paraphyses slenderly filiform. 



Peziza an tenti- -Batsch, " Cont," i. p. 211, f. 148; 

 Pers., "Myco. Eur.," p. 314; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 

 127 ; Karst, " Fez. et Ascob.," p. 31 ; and " Mon. Fez.," p. 

 140. Helotium amer/fi- -Karst., "Myco. Fenn.," p. 128; 

 Gill., "Champ.," p. 158, c. i. 



Exs. Rabh., "Fung. Eur.," ed. ii. 809 and 1621; 

 Karst, "Fung. Fenn.," 27; Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 123; 

 Roumg, "Fung. Gal," 649. 



On dead catkins of willow in damp places. 



Cup 200 to oOO/u. broad ; height, including stem, 

 200 to 600/z. A minute species, easily recognized by 

 the pyrifbrin sporidia. 



Name Amentum, a catkin ; from the habitat. 



Wrekin, Salop ! 



(6) On leaves. 



46. Hymenoscypha renisporum. (Ellis.) 



Stipitate, concave, at length plane, pale cinnamon or 

 brownish -yellow ; stem equal, slender, darker below ; 

 asci eylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, biseriate, reniform, 

 10/u long, OILL in the broadest part, biguttulate ; paraphyses 

 filiform, rather stout. 



Helotium renisporum Ellis in Cooke's " Synop. 

 Disc. U. S." Ombrophilo; Sydowiana Rehm in Exs. 

 Syd, "Mycoth. Mar," 666. Peziza recedens Phil, in 

 Herb. Ciboria Sydoiuiana Rehm in "Asco," No. 802. 



Exs. Rehm, " Asco," I c. ; Syd, " Mycoth. Mar," I. c. 



On decaying leaves of oak, etc, chiefly on the petioles 

 and ribs. Autumn. 



Cup J to 1 line broad ; stem rather long. The 



