DERMATEA. 341 



whitish, externally minutely silky; asci subfusiform or 

 clavate; sporidia 8, oblong or elliptic, with 3 to 4 distinct 

 guttre, at length 1 to 3 pseudo-septate, 22 25 X 5//. 



Patella/ria livida B. and Br, "Ann. Nat. Hist.," 

 No. 775; Cooke's "Handbk.," No. 2167. Patellaria 

 constipata Blox., MSS. ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 

 2176. 



Exs. Cooke, " Fung. Brit," No. 578. 



On fallen firs. December. 



Cups J to J a line broad ; greyish-white when dry. 



Name Lividus, of a pale lead-colour. 



Gopsal Park, Leicestershire ! (Messrs. Berkeley and 

 Broome). 



5. Dennatea Cerasi. (Pers.) 



Solitary or subcaespitose, erumpent, at first tuber- 

 culate, reddish clay-colour, then plane, blackish, with an 

 elevated, subrepand margin, irregular; exterior rugose, 

 sometimes sprinkled with a greenish meal ; hymenium 

 brownish or blackish ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 

 8, narrowly oblong, straight or slightly bent, becoming 

 pseudo-uniseptate, 20 X 5/x ; paraphyses filiform, adherent, 

 brown at the apices. 



Pycnidia intermixed with the above or separate, 

 conical, coriaceous, furfuraceous, opening by a minute 

 pore ; stylospores narrowly fusiform, elongated, curved 

 or flexuous, 3 to 5 -septate, 40 x 2 3/z ; sterigmata fili- 

 form, 20/z long. 



Spermogonia smaller than the pycnidia ; spermatia 

 filiform, curved, 13 to 16/*; sterigmata filiform, branched, 

 very short. 



Peziza Cerasi- -Pers., "Tent. Disp. Meth.," p. 35; 

 "Syn. Fung.," p. 673; " Myco. Eur.," i. p. 329; "Icon. 

 Pict," t. 20, f. 1 ; Grev, " Flo. Edin," p. 246. Cenangium 

 Cerasi Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 180; "Eng. Flo," v. 

 p. 211; Berk, " Outl," p. 374; Cooke, "Handbk," 

 No. 2189 ; Gill, " Champ," p. 195. Dermatea Cerasi^- 

 De Not, "Disc," p. 18; Tul, "Select. Fung. Carp," iii. 

 p. 156, t. 19, f. 13-16. 



