188 BRITISH DISCOMYCETEfe. 



On dead stems of Lychnis dioica. Autumn. 



Minute, scattered, generally seated on a cinereous 

 stain on the stem. 



The Peziza sphcerioides (Roth., " Ust. Ann.," i. p. 2, 

 t. i. f. 6) is Tympanis conspersa probably. Persoon cites 

 this, and his is probably the same. The specimens 

 published by Desmazieres are the earliest authority for 

 the present species, which Fries thinks may be his 

 Excipula Icevigata. Nees, fig. 281, cannot belong to this, 

 but perhaps to Tympanis. The present species is a close 

 ally of Peziza atrata (M. C. C. in litt.). 



Name ^(paipa, sphere, aoc, a resemblance. 



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



27. Mollisia Typhce. (Cooke.) 



Gregarious or scattered, minute, erumpent, sessile, 

 black, soft or waxy, soon plane, laterally compressed 

 when dry ; hymenium fuliginous, black when dr}^ 

 minutely papillate, even ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 fusiform, hyaline, simple, 12 14 X 2'5 3^. 



Peziza (Mollisia) Typhce Cooke in " Grevillea," vol. i, 

 p. 131. 



Exs. Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," ed. i. 570, ed. ii. 388; 

 Phil., "Elv. Brit.," 127. 



On leaves of Typfia. 



Externally like P. atrata, but sporidia much longer. 



Na,me--Typha, the reed mace. 



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



(c) Sporidia cylindrical or acicular. 

 28. Mollisia artemisioe. (Lasch.) 



Erumpent, thin, almost stipitate, at first turbinate, 

 then flattened, somewhat rounded, naked, brownish 

 black ; hymenium whitish ; margin incurved ; asci cylin- 

 drical ; sporidia 8, linear, minute, hyaline. 



Peziza artemisioe Lasch. in Rabh., " Herb. Myco.," 

 No. 335; "Grevillea," i. p. 131. 



Exs. Rabh., " Herb. Myco.," No. 335. 



On dead stems of Artemisia vulgaris. 



