OMBROPHILA. 325 



stipitate; hymenium plane or convex; stem thick or 

 slender ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong- 

 elliptic, obtuse at the ends or pointed, unequal-sided, 

 polari-guttulate, 10 15 X 4 5/u; paraphvses filiform. 

 (Plate X. fig. 62.) 



Peziza davusA. and S., p. 306, t. 11, f. 5; Fries, 

 "Sys. Myco., 33 ii. p. 137; B. and Br, "Ann. Nat. Hist.," 

 No. 575; Pat., p. 129, f. 290(?). Helotium dauusGil]., 

 ' Champ./' p. 153. 



On leaves, twigs etc., lying in swampy places. 

 Autumn. 



A most variable species both in size and shape, the 

 stem at one time absent, at another elongated to twice 

 the diameter of the disc ; sometimes very thick, at others 

 slender. 



Name Clavus, a stud or button. 



Trefriw, North Wales ! 



6. Ombrophila atro-virens. (Pers.) 



Solitary or crowded, sessile or substipitate, at first 

 globose, then turbinate or hemispherical, irnmarginate, 

 subgelatinous, aeruginous-green ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, cylindrical, obtuse at the ends, curved, 3 to 

 4-septate, often constricted at the septa, 14 18 X 3 4// ; 

 paraphyses filiform, branched, adherent. 



Spermogonia solitary or ceespitose, often coalescing 

 into a common truncate head ; bearing narrowly ovoide 

 spermatia, on slender, branched sterigniata. 



Peziza atro-virens Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 635 ; 

 Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 141; "Eng. Flo.,' 3 v. p. 205; 

 Grev, " Flo. Edin.," p. 425 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2099. 

 Coryne virescens Tul., " Select. Fung. Carp.," iii. p. 193, 

 t. xviii. f. 12-15. Calloria atro-virens Fries, " Summa 

 Veg. Scan.," p. 359 ; Pat., p. 75, f. 174. Cklorosplenium 

 atro-virens De Not., " Disc.," p. 23. 



Conidial form : Dacrymyces virescens Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco.," ii. p. 229. Mollisia atro-virens Gill., " Champ.," 

 p. 126. 



Exs. Phil., "Elv. Brit.,' 3 141 ; Rhem, " Asco./' 618. 



