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21. Helotium ilicis (nov. sp.). 



Sessile, plane or concave, glabrous, waxy, vitelline ; 

 margin paler, obtuse, repand ; asci clavate, pointed at 

 the summit; sporidia fusiform, biguttulate, at length 

 pseudo-uniseptate, 6 9 X 2'5/u ; paraphyses filiform. 



Helotium epiphyllum^vax. ilicina Phil., "Elv. Brit.," 

 No. 134 



On holly leaves. 



Cup J of a line broad. 



Name Ilex, the holly ; from its habitat. 



Shrewsbury ! Carlisle ! (Dr. Carlyle). 



22. Helotium Marchantice. Berk. 



Cup shortly stipitate or sessile, rather thick, plane, 

 margmate, flexuose, pale yellowish brown ; stem very 

 short or absent, obconical ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 12 15 X 3 5/x ; 

 paraphyses filiform, rather stout. 



Helotium Marchantice Berk., " Outl.," p. 372 ; Cooke, 

 "Handbk.," 2160; Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan.," p. 356; 

 Karst., " My co. Fenn.," p. 123. Peziza Marchantice- 

 Berk., " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 204. 



On fading Marchantia hemispherica. May. 



Cup about J to f of a line broad, " smooth, head quite 

 confluent with the thick stem, so as to be irregularly 

 and obtusely obconic ; flesh white ; hymenium thin " 

 (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 



Name Marchantia, a genus of Hepaticce ; from its 

 habitat. 



Whittlesea Mere (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 



(d) Sporidia linear. 



(a) On wood. 

 23. Helotium imberbe. (Bull.) 



Cup turbinate, becoming plano-concave, subflexuous, 

 fleshy or waxy, smooth, white ; stem short or nearly 

 obsolete; asci (?); sporidia 8, linear, slightly curved, 10/i 

 long. 



