334: BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Karat., " Mon. Fez.," p. 175 ; Phil, and Plow., " Grevillea," 

 x. p. 68. Orbilia luteo-rubella Karst., " Symb," p. 248 ; 

 " My co. Fenn," p. 101. 



On dead willow bark. Nylander and Karsten find it 

 on poplar and elder, also on dead polyporus. July to 

 September. 



Cups about J to f of a line broad. Approaches very 

 near to G. leucostigma. 



Name Luteus, yellow, rubellus, reddish. 



Shrewsbury ! 



16. Calloria rubella. Pers. 



Gregarious, minute, sessile, between soft and waxy, 

 becoming somewhat plane, smooth, flesh-red ; margin 

 sublaciniate ; sporidia 8, minute, cylindrical, 6 x 2^. 



Peziza rubella Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 635; and 

 "Myco. Eur," i. p. 304; A. and S, p. 308; Fries, " Obs. 

 Myco," i. p. 163 ; " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 141 ; " Summa Veg. 

 Scan.," p. 353 ; Wallr, " Flo. Germ," p. 469 ; Rabh, 

 " Krypt Flo.," i. p. 347 ; B. and Br, " Ann. Nat, Hist," 

 No. 1484; "Grevillea," iii. p. 122. Mollisia rubella- 

 Gill, " Champ," p. 124. 



Exs. Karst, " Fung. Fenn," No. 834. 



On decayed wood with P. vinosa. 



"Cups 1 to 2 lines broad' (B. and Br.). "Semi- 

 pellucid, convex, then plane and subflexuose; margin 

 minutely velvety " (M. C. C. in MS.). 



Name Rubella, reddish. 



New Pitsligo (Rev. J. Fergusson). 



17. Calloria auricolor. (Blox.) 



Gregarious, soft, subgelatinous, orange, marginate, 

 springing from a stratum of delicate, hyaline filaments ; 

 sporidia 8, narrow. 



Peziza auricolor, Blox. B. and Br, " Ann. Nat. 

 Hist," No. 1068; Cooke, "Handbk," No. 2098. 



On the under side of a fallen tree. 



" Cups with a broad raised margin, springing from 

 delicate, radiating, hyaline, interwoven hairs. The 



