192 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



prominent, whitish ; sporidia 8, fusiform, straight or 

 curved, 810 x l--l'5/u. (Plate VI. fig. 34.) 



Peziza dilutella Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 147. 

 Helotium xeroplasticum Rehm, "Asco.," No. 565. Mol- 

 lisia dilutella Gill., " Champ.," p. 131. 



Exs. Rehm, " Asco.," No. 565. 



On dead stems of Epilobium hirsutum. 



Cup about J to J a line broad. 



Name Dilutus, washed ; pale-coloured. 



Haughmond Hill, near Shrewsbury ! 



Var. Smyrnii. Phil, and Plow. 



Gregarious, sessile, hemispherical, then expanded, 

 fleshy, glabrous, pale argillaceous ; margin minutely 

 fimbriate ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform 

 or cylindraceo-fusiform, 3-guttulate, 10 13 x 3/z ; para- 

 physes filiform. 



On dead stems of Smyrnium. 



Differing very little from P. dilutella. 



Name Smyrnium, a genus of Umbellifercv. 



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



36. Mollisia albula. Phil. 



Gregarious, minute, sessile, concave, becoming plane 

 or convex, glabrous, shining, soft, fleshy, whitish ; asci 

 clavate ; sporidia subcylindrical or fusiform, hyaline, 

 6 10 x 2ju ; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



On rabbit-dung. 



Cup about 300 to 400/^ broad, fleshy. The pseudo- 

 parenchyma consists of elongated, cylindrical cells. 



Name Albulus, somewhat white. 



Forres, N. B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 



37. Mollisia flaveola. (Cooke.) 



Sessile, minute, bright yellow, submembranaceous ; 

 soft, soon becoming discoid, smooth, even ; asci cylin- 

 drical, sporidia subfusiform, straight or curved, 8 X 2^u. 



Peziza (Mollisia) flaveola Cooke in " Grevillea," i. 

 p. 131. 



