Io8 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Name Lysimachia, a genus of Primulacece ; from 

 its habitat. 



Shrewsbury ! 



Var. RudbeckioB. 



Cup 1 line wide ; stem about 1 to 1 J lines high, 

 cylindrical, expanding into the base of the cup ; sporidia 

 1825 X 4 (>^u. 



On dead stems of Rudbeckia. 



Name Rudbeckia, a genus of Composite from its 

 habitat. 



Batheaston ! (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



(c) On leaves. 

 36. Hymenoscypha albida. (Rob.) 



Cup at first subhemispherical, then plane, white, 

 glabrous, margin entire ; stem rather stout, enlarged 

 upwards ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform 

 or oblongo- elliptic, 2 to 3-guttulate, curved, becoming 

 pseudo-septate, 15 17 X 4^u ; paraphyses filiform. 



Peziza albida Rob. in Desm., " Crypt. Fr.," ed. i. 



2004, and ed. ii. 1601 ; "Ann. Sc. Nat," 1851, vol. xvi. p. 



323. Helotium scutula, var. albidum Karst., " Myco. 



Fenn," p. 112 ; " Grevillea," vi. p. 127. Phialea albida 



-Gill., " Champ ," p. 105. 



Exs. Desm, " Crypt. Fr," I. c. 



On decaying petioles of Fraxinus. 



Cup 4 to 1 line broad ; stem about the same long. 

 When fresh this is ivory-white ; the stem is often brown 

 at the base. 



Name Albidus, inclining to white; whitish. 



Copthorn, near Shrewsbury ! 



Var. jEsculi. 



The sporidia are larger than in H. albida, 20- 

 23 X 4 5ju, and more frequently clavate. 

 On petioles of horse-chestnut.' 



Name ^Esculus, the horse-chestnut ; from its habitat. 

 Shobdon Court, Herefordshire ! 



