158 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Exs. Rabh, " Fung. Eur," No. 29 ; Karat., " Fung. 

 Fenn," No. 80 and 458; Moug. and Nest., No. 784; 

 Phil., Elv. Brit," No. 41 ; Rehm, " Asco," 704 ; Roumg, 

 "Fung. Gal.," 446, 650. 



On dead stumps and naked wood. Autumn. 



Cup from J to 1 line broad. Gregarious or crowded ; 

 clear citrine-yellow. 



Name Citrus, lemon ; lemon-yellow. 



Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Penicuick, near Edin- 

 burgh ! Cawdor, N.B. ! Leigh Woods, near Bristol (Mr. 

 Cedric Bucknall). Forden, Montgomeryshire ! (Rev. J. 

 E. Vize). Downton, Salop ! Wrekin, Salop ! Trefrew, 

 North Wales ! Clungunford, Salop ! 



9. Helotium pallescens. (Pers.) 



Cup shortly stipitate, concave or plane, waxy, pale 



yellow or whitish, inclining to pallid, glabrous ; stem 



short, rather stout, or absent ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 



sporidia elliptic or oblong, pseudo-uniseptate, 8 11 X 2 



-4/z ; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Helotium pallescens Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan.," 

 p. 355; Cooke, "Handbk," No. 2146; Karst, " Myco. 

 Fenn.," p. 114 (?) ; Gill, " Champ," p. 109. Peziza pal- 

 lescensPers., " Obs," p. 85 ; " Syn. Fung," p. 664 ; 

 Fries, "Sys. Myco," ii. p. 132 ; " Eng. Fio," p. 203. 



Exs. Karst, " Fung. Fenn," 640. 



On dead stumps. Autumn. 



Cup about J to 1 line broad, nearly sessile, firm, 

 waxy texture, margin paler than the disc, and regular. 



Name Pallesco, to grow pale. 



Leigh Woods, near Bristol (Mr. Cedric Bucknall). 

 North Wootton! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Forres, N.B. ! 

 (Rev. Dr. Keith). Near Shrewsbury ! 



10. Helotium subsessile. Schum. 



Cups very shortly stipitate or sessile, plano-convex, 

 pale umber, externally pallid; stem umber- brown at the 

 base ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong, sublanceolate, 2 

 to 3-nucleate. 



