MOLLISIA. 177 



Niptera Teucrii- -Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," supp. i 

 p. 47. 



Exs. Fckl, "F. Rh," 2378; Phil, "Elv. Brit," No. 

 181. 



On dead stems of Teucrium scorodonia, in damp 

 places. 



Cups 500/z broad, often crowded, when dry nearly 

 black ; asci with a subglobose base. 



Name Teucrium, a genus of Labiacece. 



Trefrew, North Wales ! 



10. Mollisia urticicola. Phil. 



Gregarious, sessile, subhemispherical, becoming nearly- 

 plane, externally glabrous, pale rufous-brown ; margin 

 fimbriate ; hymeniurn from pale cinereous to pale brown ; 

 asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform or cylin- 

 drical, 7 X 1/u; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza urticicola Phil., " Elv. Brit," No. 177. 



On dead stems of Urtica, lying in a damp place 

 occasionally inundated. 



Cups about 500 /LI broad. 



Name Urtica, the nettle, colo, to inhabit. 



Shelton Rough, near Shrewsbury ! 



Oil culms of Arundo. 

 11. Mollisia arundinacea. (D. C.) 



Gregarious, erumpent, sessile, plane, orbicular, thin, 

 waxy ; hymeniurn pallid, becoming fuliginous ; margin 

 narrow, darker ; asci cylindraceo-clavate : sporidia 

 narrowly fusiform, 10 15 x 2^u. 



Xyloma arundinaceum D. C, " Flo. Fr," vi. p. 162 ; 

 Eustegia arundinacea Fries, "Sys. Myco." ; "Elench," p. 

 112; " Grevillea," iv. p. 67. Stegia arundinacea Fckl, 

 " Symb. Myco," supp. i. p. 328. * 



Exs. Moug. and Nest, No, 983; Cooke, "Fung. Brit," 

 11, No. 380. 



On culms of Arundo Phragmites. 



About J of a line broad ; usually seated on a blackish 



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