

174 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



p. 1030; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 142; Sow, t. 64; 

 With., v. p. 312; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 205; Karst., "Pez. et 

 Ascob," p. 37; " Mon. Fez.," p. 158; Nyl., "Fung. Fenn.," 

 p. 60; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2100. Peziza callosa 

 Bull., t. 416, f. 1; "Flo. Dan./' t. 1490, f. 2. Peziza 

 salicaria Pers., " Myco. Eur.," i. p. 308. Trochila 

 salicaria De Not., "Disc.," p. 15. Mollisia cinerea 

 Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 189 ; Gill., " Champ.," p. 134. 

 Niptera cinerea Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 292. 



Exs. Desm, "Crypt. Fr.," ed. i. No. 1421, ed. ii. 

 No. 921 ; Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," No. 735 ; Cooke, " Fung. 

 Brit.," No. 390, ed. ii. 382 ; Phil., " Elv. Brit.," No. 125 ; 

 Rabh., "Fung. Eur.," No. 2116 and 1643; Eoumg., 

 " Fung. Gal.," 831. 



On decaying wood. Autumn to spring. 



Cup J to 2 line broad. " Often crowded, equal or 

 lobed, and waved at the margin ; hymenium pale or 

 grey, watery, paler towards the circumference; substance 

 soft and sometimes almost gelatinous ' (Grev.). This 

 should be compared with Lachnella Schumacheri. 



Name Cinis, ashes ; ash-colour. 



Found everywhere. 



4. Mollisia benesuada. (Tul.) 



Gregarious or fasciculate erumpent, sessile, at first 

 subhemispherical, then expanded, becoming convex, 

 difformed, waxy ; externally glabrous, watery cinereous ; 

 hymenium pallid or brownish ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 

 sporidia fusiform or oblong-fusiform, hyaline, 10 X 2'5/i. 



Peziza benesuada Tul., "Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1853, 

 t 15 f . 8 9. 



Ex's. Phil., "Elv. Brit.," No. 175; Rehm, "Asco.," 

 756 ; Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," ed. ii. 653. 



On dead branches of alder. 



Cups about i a line broad. These burst out through 

 the bark in little heaps, much crowded and difformed. 

 The supposed spermatia are rarely to be met with. This 

 is very near M. cinerea and M. fallax. 



Name Bene, well, suadeo, to persuade ; from afford- 



