134 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Norfolk ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Near Hereford ! near 

 Shrewsbury ! Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 



B. SPORIDIA BROADLY FUSIFORM OR CLAVATE. 



(<x) On wood (one on fruit). 

 30. Hymenoscypha aquatica. (Curr.) 



Cup stipitate ; disc minute, very little wider than 

 the apex of the delicate, almost filiform stem, concave 

 or convex ; asci cylindrical or cylindraceo-clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, colourless, elliptic or clavate, biguttulate, 

 1315 X 5QfjL. 



Helotium aquaticum Curr., "Linn. Trans.," xxiv. 

 p. 154, t. 25, f. 19; Cooke, " Haiidbk.," No. 2139. 



On fragment of stick in water. May. 



Cup J a line broad ; stem about 2 to 2 J lines long ; 

 solitary. The measures of the sporidia given above are 

 derived from Mr. Currey's original specimen. It is to be 

 regretted he made no note of the colour. 



Name Aquaticus, of the water; from its habitat. 



Paul's Cray Common, Kent! (Mr. F. Currey). 



31. Hymenoscypha virgultorum. (Vahl.) 



Gregarious, stipitate, tough, glabrous, hymenium 

 yellowish red, at length rufous ; cup patellseform or 

 frequently convex ; exterior paler ; stem slender, attenu- 

 ated downwards, subflocculose ; asci cylindraceo-clavate; 

 sporidia 8, fusiform, often slightly curved, biguttulate, 

 becoming 1 to 2 pseudo-septate, 14 23 X 3 5/x; para- 

 physes filiform. 



Peziza virgultorum VahL, "Flo. Dan.," t. 1016, 

 f. 2 ; NyL, " Fez. Fenn.," p. 37 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. 

 p. (as var. /3 of fructigena). Helotium virguitorum 

 Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 109; Cooke, "Handbk.," 2133 

 (exs. part). 



On dead branches of trees. Autumn. 



This nearly resembles fructigena, and is regarded by 

 many high authorities as a variety of that species, but it 



