CHLOROSPLEXIUM. 147 



On fir-cones and ash-stumps. 

 Cup 5 lines broad ; entire height about the same. 

 Name Verio t to turn, forma, shape ; variable in 

 form. 



Apethorpe ! (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 



B. SPORIDIA FUSIFORM. 



2. Chlorosplenium ceruginosuin. (" Flo. Dan.") 



Cup shortly stipitate or sessile, head turbinate, then 

 expanded, subflexuose, verdigris-green ; hymenium paler ; 

 stem short, rather stout ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 

 8, fusiform, 10 14 x 3'5 4'5^i ; paraphyses filiform, 

 slender. (Plate V. fig. 28.) 



Peziza ceruginosa " Flo. Dan.," t. 1260, f. 1 ; Pers., 

 " Syn. Fung," p. 617 ; and " Myco. Eur," i. p. 219 ; Fries, 

 " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 130 ; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 202 ; " Grev," 

 t. 241; Sow, 347; "Flo. Dan," 534, 1260, f. 1; Nyl, 

 " Pez. Fenn," p. 41 ; Karst, " Mon. Fez.," 142. Helotium 

 't ri'ifinosum Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan.," p. 353; Fckl, 

 " Symb. Myco," p. 314; Cooke, "Handbk." No. 2131; 

 Berk., " Outl.," 372; Gill, "Champ," p. 151, c. i. Chloro- 

 splenium oeruginosum Tul, "Select. Fung. Carp," iii. 

 p. 187. 



Exs. Berk, No. 281 ; Karst, Nos. 151, 459 ; Rav, v. 

 No. 40; Fckl, " F. Rh," 1158; Phil, " Elv. Brit.," No. 

 86 ; Ellis, " N. A. Fung.," 987 ; Roumg, " Fung. Gal," 

 1858 ; Cooke, " Fung. Brit," ed. ii. 389. 



On fallen oak branches, staining the wood on which 

 it grows, for a considerable depth, of a deep verdigris- 

 green, the wood so stained being employed as " green 

 oak " in the manufacture of Tunbridge ware. The fully 

 developed cups are much more rare than the green 

 mycelioid state. 



The cups are J to 2 J lines broad ; the stem is very 

 variable in length, and often carries more than one cup. 

 The margin is often lobed, though generally regular. 



Name jErugo, verdigris ; from the colour. 



Woods near Ludlow ! 



