168 BKITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



short, at length obliterated; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, fusiform, 6 X ^JJL. 



Helotium conigenum (Pers.) Berk., " Out!.," p. 372 ; 

 Cooke, "Handbk./' No. 2135 ; Karat., "Myco. Fenn.," p. 

 126; Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 316; Gill., " Champ.," p. 

 159. Peziza conigena Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 634; 

 Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 139 ; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 205 ; 

 Nyl., " Pez. Fenn.," p. 49 ; Karst., " Pez. et Ascob.," p. 36 ; 

 "Mon. Pez.," p. 152. 



On cones of Scotch fir in damp spots. Autumn. 



Cup J to ij a line broad ; gregarious ; stem often 

 reduced to a mere point. Nylander and Karsten give 

 the size of sporidia as 7 8 X 3*5//. 



Name Conus, a cone, gignere, to bear ; on cones. 



Near Shrewsbury! Buttington, Montgomeryshire! 



(c) Sporidia cylindrical. 



(a) On wood. 

 30. Helotium scoparium. Cooke. 



Cup sessile, convex, becoming greyish in drying, 

 disc rather paler ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, cylindrical, 

 obtuse, straight or curved, biguttulate, at length pseudo- 

 septate, 20 25 X 5ju ; paraphyses filiform, granular. 



Helotium scoparium Cooke, " Grevillea," iv. p. 112. 



On dead twigs of broom. 



Cup J a line broad ; scattered or subgregarious ; 

 asci lOO^u long, 29/x broad. 



Name Scoparius, brown ; on broom. 



Dupplin Castle, Perth (Dr. M. C. Cooke). 



(d) Sporidia doubtful. 

 31. Helotium punctiforme. (Grev.) 



Cup shortly stipitate or sessile, punctiform, globose, 

 becoming expanded, at length convex, fleshy, glabrous, 

 yellow ; margin crenulate. 



Peziza punctiformis Grev., " Sc. Crypt. Flo.," t. 

 63. Helotium punctatum Fries, " Summa Yeg. Scan./' 



