MOLLISIA. Ij7 



E. SPORIDIA LINEAR. 



46. Mollisia lurida. (Pers.) 



Crowded or scattered, turbinate, then expanded, 

 rufous-brown, whitish towards the margin, fibroso-striate ; 

 hymenium concave, pale rufous ; margin erect ; asci 

 clavate ; sporidia 8, narrowly linear, curved, multi- 

 guttulate, 20 25 X I/* ; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza lurida Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 606. 



On dead leaves of Pinus sylvestris. 



Our plant agrees perfectly with a specimen in herb. 

 Fries, and is abundantly distinct from Peziza pineti 

 (Batsch). 



Name Luridus, lurid ; a dirtv brown colour. 



t 



Mossburnford ! (Mr. Jerdon in Kew Herbarium). 



SUBGENUS V. HYSTEROPEZIZA. Rabh. 



Cups scattered, immersed ; when moist erumpent, 

 compressed, blackish. 



Name From Hysterium and Peziza, two genera of 

 fungi. 



One British species. 



47. Mollisia erumpens. (Grev.) 



Scattered, minute, concave, waxy, soft, glabrous, 

 erumpent, sessile, cinereous, when dry concealed beneath 

 the bark ; asci clavate, slender ; sporidia 8, cylindrical, 

 rounded at the ends, sometimes slightly bent, 7xl'5^u; 

 paraphyses filiform. 



Peziza erumpens Grev., " Crypt, Flo.," t. 99 ; " Eng. 

 Flo.," v. p. 206 ; Berk., " Outl," p. 371 ; Gonn. and Rabh., 

 iii. t. 5, f. 6; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2111. Mollisia 

 erumpens Gill., " Champ.," p. 123. 



Exs. Desm., " Crypt. Fr." ed. ii. No. 1345 ; Cooke, 

 "Fung. Brit.," 566, ed. ii. 384; Phil, "Elv. Brit.," 35; 

 Rabh., "Fung. Eur," 1811 ; Rehm, "Asco.," 354. 



On dead petioles of sycamore. Autumn. 



Resembling to the naked eye an Hysterium when 



