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BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



3. 



i 



Stem slender, very short : on catkins . . 



Stem obconic ; margin obtuse ; on roots 



Stem obcouic ; cup semitransparent and repand : 



twigs 



Stem obconic : on wood 

 Stem extremely short, thick, at times obsolete 



wood 

 .Stem extremely short ; cup hyaline : on leaves 



on 



on 



B. SESSILE. 



Hymenium 

 particles 

 Hymenium 

 Hymenium 

 Hymenium 

 Hymenium 

 Hymenium 

 Hymenium 

 Hymenium 

 (Hymenium 

 [Hymenium 

 2. { Hymenium 

 | Hymenium 

 I, mosses 



pale brown, sprinkled with shining 



bay-brown 



yellow 



white 



egg -yellow ; margin raised, paler 



yellow ; margin crenulate 



pale yellow : on cones 



lutescent : on Humulus 



chalk-white, pruinose : on dead wood 



white, not pruinose: on herbaceous stems 



pallid, externally darker : on Cytisus . . 



pallid ; flesh watery consistence : on 



alniellum. 

 politum. 



pileatum. 

 imberbe. 



fagineum. 

 phyllophilum. 



ocliraceum. 



badium. 



1 



2 



olarqflavum. 



punctiforme. 



conigenum. 



Humuli. 



pruinosum. 



herbarum. 



scoparium. 



phascoides 



A. STIP1TATE OR SUBSTIPITATE. 



(a) Sporidia elliptic. 



(a) On wood. 

 1. Helotium ferrugineum. (Schum.) 



Substipitate, obconic; hymenium concave, ferru- 

 ginous-yellow ; externally, as well as the tumid margin, 

 pallid-yellow ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, 

 elliptic, subfusiform or clavate, 2-gnttulate, 10 13 X 3 

 5jn ; paraphyses filiform, slender. (Plate V. fig. 30.) 



Helotium ferrugineum Berk., "Ann. Nat. Hist./' 

 No. 962 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 2161 ; Gill., " Champ.," 

 p. 152. Peziza ferruginea Schum., " Saell.," p. 412; 

 Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 134; Bull, t. 300. Var. P. 

 disciformis Hoff., "Icon. An./' t. 16, f. 1-5. 



On dead oak twigs, etc. Autumn. 



Cups gregarious or scattered, about J to J a line broad ; 

 at first concave, then plane, at length convex; flesh 

 tinted brown; margin lighter in colour than the disc, 



