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cave when young, with totally different spores. Cup 

 024 inch diameter, growing on Sphceria hirsuta, and its 

 mycelium, accompanied by a brown mould, consisting of 

 erect, simple, articulated threads, surmounted by a single 

 oblong uniseptate spore, '0005 inch (12/u) long ; asci 

 002 inch (50 M ) ; sporidia "0002 to '00025 inch (5 to 6/u) 

 long, '0001 to -00015 inch (2'5 to 3'5^) wide ; bright orange 

 when treated with iodine (B. and Br.). 

 Name A qua, water ; watery. 



B. SPORIDIA OBLOXG-ELLIPTIC. 



2. Mollisia epithallina. Phil, and Plow. 



Congregated, sessile, disciform, immarginate, pallid- 

 white ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong- 

 eUiptic, 8 X 2/i ; paraphyses slender, slightly thickened 

 upwards. 



Peziza (Mollisia) epithallina Phil, and Plow, in 

 " Grevillea," vi. p. 24. 



On thallus of Peltigera canina. 



Name tiri, upon, SaAAoe, a branch or thallus of a 

 lichen ; from its habitat. 



King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



C. SPORIDIA FUSIFORM OR OBLONG-FUSIFORM. 



(d) On ivood. 

 3. Mollisia cinerea. (Batsch.) 



Cups gregarious or scattered, at first urceolate, at 

 length applanate, cinereous or nearly livid ; margin entire, 

 whitish, not unfrequently repand or flexuose ; hymenium 

 when dry cinereous, yellowish, or becoming blackish ; 

 asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong or subfusiform, 

 straight or curved, 5 12 X 1 2^u; paraphyses filiform, 

 slender. 



Peziza cinerea Batsch, p. 196, f. 137; Pers., " Obs.," 

 ii. p. 80; " Myco. Eur./' i. p. 302; Wahl, "Flo. Suec.," ii. 



