146 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Name Cacalia, an herb; from its habitat. 

 Guernsey, in Herb. Berk. ! 



GENUS IV. CHLOROSPLENIUM. Fries, " Summa Veg. 



Scan.," p. 356. 



Cup stipitate, concave or plane, glabrous, waxy, 

 tough ; seruginous green or olivaceous. (Plate V. fig. 28.) 



Name x^ w /oe> green, <T7rA?)y, the spleen ; from the 

 colour. 



Readily distinguished by their dark colour, olivaceous 

 or verdigris-green. They are often irregular in form, 

 and the margin often repand. C. ceruginosus stains the 

 wood on which it grows with its green mycelium. 



ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 



A. Sporidia elliptic .. .. . .. .. species 1 



B. Sporidia fusiform . . . . . . . . . . ,,2 



A. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC. 



1. Chlorosplenium versiforme. (Pers.) 



Gregarious, stipitate or subsessile ; cup concave, be- 

 coming plane or convex, difformed or contorted ; hyme- 

 nium yellowish olive or fuliginous brown; stem slender, 

 often absent ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 8 x [i ; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza versiformis rPers., " Icon, et Descr.," p. 25, 

 t. 7, f. 7 ; " Syn. Fung," p. 647 ; " Myco. Eur," p. 243 ; 

 A. and S, p. 314 (6. livida) ; Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 

 131; Karst, " Mon. Pez," p. 141. Helotium versiforme 

 Berk, " Outl," p. 372, t. 2, f. 6 ; Cooke, " Handbk," 

 No. 2152; Gill., "Champ," p. 158. Cldorosplenium 

 versiforme De Not, " Disc," p. 22 ; Karst, " Myco. 

 Fenn," p. 102. Peziza bulgarioides Rabh, " Hedw," 

 1870, p. 136. 



Exs. Rabh, "Fung. Eur," 1008, 1311 ; Berk, "Brit. 

 Fung," 274; Thum, " Mycoth. Univ.," 217; Berk, 274; 

 Ellis, "N. A. Fungi," 988. 



