MOLLISIA. 179 



'Externally fawn-colour, sprinkled with saccharine 



granules : on wood . . . . . . . . . . elaphines. 



Externally black, rugose ; margin whitish. . .. atrata. 



Externally black, rugose; margin erect: on Lychnis sphxroides. 



Externally black, rugose: on Carex. . . . . melatephra. 



Externally umber- brown, glabrous; margin entire, 



i white . . . . . . . . . . . . paulula. 



Externally tawny, glabrous ; margin tumid . . arenevaga. 



Externally cinereous, granulated ; margin denticu- 

 late : on leaves . . . . . . . . . . vibumicola. 



Externally cinereous; margin entire, paler. . . . ebuli. 



Externally brownish black : on Artemisia . . . . artemisix. 



Externally whitish or greyish brown; margin entire, 



sinuous . . . . , , . . . . . palustrie. 



A. SUPERFICIAL 



(a) Sporidia elliptic or oblong. 



12. Mollisia nervisequia. (Pers.) 



Sessile, seriate, at first nearly globose, then expanded, 

 perpendicularly rugose, blackish grey ; margin crenulate, 

 paler ; hymenium concave, cinereous or black ; asci 

 clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic or oblong, 13 X 3^u ; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender. (Plate VI. fig. 33.) 



Peziza nervisequia Pers., " Myco. Eur.," 308 ; Fries, 

 " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. ] 03 ; B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist./' 

 No. 1171; Cooke, " rlandbk," No. 2121. 



Exs.Desm., " Crypt. Fr," 2012; Roumo-., Stirpes," 

 331. 



On dead leaves of Plantago lanceolata ; chiefly on the 

 nerves of the leaves. Winter. 



This very much resembles M. plantaginis, but the asci 

 and sporidia are much larger, besides the habit of growth 

 on the nerves. 



Name Nervus, a nerve, and sequor, to follow. 



Batheaston (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



(b) Sporidia subfusiform. 



13. Mollisia elaphines. (B. and Br.) 



Gregarious, subglobose, sessile, pale fawn-colour; 

 mouth paler, white, sprinkled with saccharine granules ; 

 hymenium watery-grey ; asci clavate or clavate fusi- 



