HYMEXOSCYPHA. 125 



At first hemispherical, then expanded and plane ; 

 stem slender, attenuated downwards. 



Name After Aspegren, a friend of Fries. 

 Wier Coppice, near Shrewsbury ! 



17. Hymenoscypha serotina. (Pers.) 



Cup stipitate, plano-convex, rather thin, bright 

 yellow; stem short, firm, thickish ; asci cylindraceo- 

 clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic or clavate, straight 

 or slio-htly curved, 22 24 x 4/z. 



Helotiwn serotinum Berk., "Outl.," p. 372; Fckl., 

 "Symb. Myco," p. 313; Cooke, "Handbk," No. 2132; 

 Gill., " Champ.," p. 156. Peziza serotina Pers., " Syn. 

 Fung.," p. 661; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 119; "Eng. 

 Flo.," v. p. 201. Helvetia aurea Bolt., t. 98. 



Exs. Fckl., 1157. 



On dead leaves and branches in water. Autumn. 



Cup about 1 to 2 lines broad ; stem H to 2 lines 

 long. Gregarious or crowded. 



O O 



Name Serotinus, late ; from its late appearance. 

 Near Halifax (Bolton). 



C. SPORIDIA CYLINDRICAL. 



18. Hymenoscypha bryophila. (Fries.) 



Cup stipitate, slender, at first concave, then convex, 

 glabrous, flavescent ; stem long, slender, flexuose, slightly 

 pubescent ; asci clavate ; sporidia cylindrical, curved, 

 10 X 2ju ; paraphyses filiform, enlarged upwards, septate. 



Peziza bryophila Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 119. 

 P. pyxidata " Flo. Dan.," 1. 1017, f. 1. Phialea bryophila 

 -Gill, " Champ," p. 100. 



Amongst rnoss in mountain pastures. Autumn. 



Cup 1 to 1 J lines broad, 2 \ to 5 lines high. Scattered, 

 slender, nearly white, becoming yellowish. 



Name Bryum, a genus of mosses, and 0/Aoe, loving ; 

 from its habitat. 



Longmynd, Salop ' 



