MOLLISIA. 



171 



208. Helotium sclerotioidesBerk,, " Outl.," 371 ; Cooke. 

 " Handbk./' 2128. 



On decayed wood. 



At first sight resembling Sclerotium quercigenum ; 

 about 1 line broad (M. J. Berkeley). 



The only specimen under this name I have seen is in 

 the Kew Herbarium, and it has no fruit. 



Appin (Carmichael). Near Bristol (Mr. A. Leipner). 



GENUS VII. MOLLISIA. Fries. 



Minute, sessile, urceolate, cupulate or plane ; sub- 

 stance soft, rarely waxy ; exterior glabrous or furfura- 

 ceous, even or plicate ; sporidia 8, minute, globose, elliptic, 

 fusiform or filiform, hyaline, simple or 1 -septate. (Plate 

 VI. figs. 32-36.) 



Growing on vegetable substances. 



For the most part darker in colour and softer than 

 Helotium; the minute pore by which the cup opens 

 visible from the first. Never hairy or even tomentose. 



Name Mollis, soft. 



ARRANGEMENT OF SUBGENERA. 



I. Niptera 

 II. Pyrenopeziza 



III. Dilutella 



IV. Mollisiella .. 

 V. Hysteropeziza 



VI. Pseudopeziza 

 VII. Peristomealis 



KEY TO THE SUBGENERA. 



through 



a narrow black 



2. 



3. 



Margin furnished with a peristome 

 Margin not furnished with a peristome 



(Emerging when moist 

 slit ... 



^Emerging when moist through the epidermis by a 

 lacerated aperture (resembling Phacidium) 



(Seated on the epidermis 

 Texture rather firm ; cups plane 

 Texture soft ; cups globose (mostly black). 

 Texture soft, scarcely coloured, at length expanded 



(Glabrous 



\Minutely granulated 



1-11 



12-32 



33-37 



bS-46 



47 



48-51 



52 



Peristomealis. 

 1 



Hysteropeziza. 



Pseudopeziza. 



2 



Niptera. 



Pyrenopeziza. 



3 



Dilutella . 



Mollisiella. 



