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slender base ; sporidia 8, filiform, very often attenuated 

 at both ends, straight, colourless, simple or slenderly 

 3-septate, 40 60 X 2'o/u, ; paraphyses crowded, apex 

 slightly and unequally thickened. 



Peziza callunigena Karst., "Mon. Fez.," p. 171. 

 Crumenula callunigena Karst., " Symb.," p. 251 ; 

 "My co. Fenn.,"p. 212. 



On branches of Calluna vulgaris. Autumn. 



Cups '6 mm. broad. I have found this abundantly on 

 decaying branches of Calluna vulgaris, and the cups are 

 invariably seated on a blackish-brown tapesium, re- 

 minding one of Tapesia Rosce (Pers.), to which it bears 

 some resemblance. 



Name Calluna, a genus of Ericaceae, gigno, to bear. 



Near Clunbury, Salop ! 



3. Crumenula Ericce. (Fries.) 



Solitary, sessile, coriaceo-membranaceous, brownish- 

 black ; externally rugose ; mouth compressed, connivent ; 

 asci cylindrical, narrowed at the base ; sporidia 8, fili- 

 form, 90 X l'5ju ; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Pycnidia similar to the above ; stylospores cylin- 

 draceo-fusiform, curved, at length uniseptate, 16 X 2/u. 



Cenangium Ericce Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 188. 



Exs. Phil., "Elv. Brit/' No. 194. Neither Rehm's 

 " Asco.," No. 466, nor Rabh., "Fung. Eur.," 1445. 



On dead branches of Calluna vulgaris. 



Name Erica, a genus of heaths ; from its habitat. 



Hadnall, Salop ! 



4. Crumenula Ledi. (A. and S.) 



Scattered, superficial, sessile, at first closed, and nearly 

 spherical, then depressed at the top, at length henri- 

 spherically collapsed, and opening with a broad mouth, 

 rugulose, black ; asci subcylindrical (sporidia not seen) ; 

 paraphyses numerous, filiform. 



Peziza Ledi A. and S., p. 343, 1. 10, f. 7 ; Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco.," ii. p. 114; Nees, f. 264; B. and Br., "Ann. Nat 



