322 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



The horny texture of this plant justifies its removal 

 from the Pezizce. 



Duddington Loch, near Edinburgh (Dr. Greville). 

 Park Loch, near Aberdeen ! (Professor J. W. H. Trail). 



GENUS IV. OMBROPHILA. Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan./' 



p. 357. 



Sessile or stipitate, glabrous, gelatinous ; hymenium 

 plane or convex, rarely concave ; generally dark-coloured ; 

 epiphytal. (Plate X. fig. 62.) 



Spermogonia occur in some species. 



Name 6/i]3/ooc, rain, 0Ae>c, loving. 



ARRANGEMENT OP THE SPECIES. 



A. Sporidia elliptic .. .. .. .. species 1,2 



B. Sporidia fusiform or subfusiform . . ,, 3-5 

 c. Sporidia cylindrical . . . . . . 6 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 

 Exterior fibrillose-striate . . . rudis. 



Exterior veined, flesh-red 

 Exterior even .... 

 (Sporidia uniguttulate. . 

 " \Sporidia multiguttulate and larger 



1 



2 



sarcoides. 



purpurea, 



/Yellowish-brown ; paraphyses enlarged at the 



2 ] summits ............ brunnca. 



' j .ZEruginous-green ; paraphyses filiform, branched . . atro-virens. 



(Pallid or purplish ; paraphyses unbranched . . clavus. 



A. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC. 



1. Ombrophila rudis. (Berk.) 



Fasciculate, turbinate-stipitate or stipitate, sub- 

 gelatinous ; hymenium plane, here and there depressed, 

 rugose, yellow-brown, somewhat vinous, externally finely 

 fibrilloso-striate ; stem often elongated, lacunose or striate; 

 asci clavate, base slender; sporidia 8, elliptic, 7- -10x3- 

 4ju; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza rudis Berk, in "Proc. N. H. Soc. Berw./' 

 p. 190; "Ann. Nat. Hist," No. 574, t. 6, f. 13; Cooke, 

 ' Handbk.," No. 2077. 



