184 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



brown; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, biseriate, 

 fusiform, 2-guttulate, 10 15 x 2 3/x; paraphyses fili- 

 form, slender. 



Pyrenopeziza Plantaginis Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 

 295. Peziza Plantaginis " Grevillea," i. p. 131. Peziza 

 atrata, form foliicola Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," No. 1313. 



Exs. Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," 1313; Fckl., F. Rh.," 

 1594; Cooke, "Fung. Brit./' No. 653, ed. ii. No. 386; 

 Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 37. 



On dead leaves of Plantago lanceolata. Autumn. 



Externally like P. atrata, but asci and sporidia 

 larger. 



Name Plantago, a genus of Plantaginacece. 



King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



19. Mollisia jugosa. Phil, and Plow. 



Crowded, globose, sessile, vertically rugose, scabrous, 

 black, mouth contracted ; hymenium cinereous ; asci 

 clavate; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic or fusiform, 3 to 

 5-guttulate, becoming 3 to 5-pseuclo-septate, 14 18 X 3 

 5/u. ; paraphyses numerous, adherent. 



Peziza (Mollisia) jugosa Phil, and Plow, in " Gre- 

 villea," xiii. p. 74. 



On dead herbaceous stems. 



Cup 200/x broad. This is in external characters like 

 P. atrata. 



Name Jugosus, ridged. 



King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



(c) Sporidia filiform. 

 20. Mollisia micrometra. (B. and Br.) 



Cup very minute, subturbinate, brownish, mouth 

 somewhat contracted, finely striate, attached by strong 

 villous hairs ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, filiform. 



Peziza micrometra B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," 

 No. 773; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2115. 



On dead steins of Juncus. 



