MOLLISIA. 185 



Extremely minute, punctiform, horn-brown; hyme- 

 nium plane (B. and Br., I. c.). 



Cup not more than lOO^u broad. The sporidia refuse 

 to quit the asci in the specimen examined, hence the 

 measurement cannot be safely given. 



Name n LK PS> small, n^rpa, the womb; from the 

 minute interior. 



Twy cross ! (Rev. A. Bloxam). 



21. Mollisia viburnicola. B. and Br. 



Minute, punctiform, subglobose, then hemispherical, 

 cinereous, externally granulated ; margin denticulate, 

 furfuraceous ; hymenium paler ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, 

 filiform, 10 12 X 1/u; paraphyses filiform. 



Peziza viburnicola B. and Br. in " Ann. Nat. Hist.," 

 No. 1170; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2120. 



Exs. Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," 656, ed. ii. No. 385 ; Phil., 

 "Elv. Brit," No. 85; Rabh, "Fung. Eur," 1818. 



On either side of dead leaves of Vibwrwum. 



Cup about 300 to 500/i broad, "externally speckled 

 with little dark tufts of cells, which sometimes give out 

 a few short flexuous hairs " (B. and Br.). The sporidia 

 are linear-oblong, straight, or a little bent. 



Name Viburnum, name of the shrub on which it 

 grows, colo, to inhabit. 



Shere, Surrey ! (Dr. Capron). 



B. ERUMPEXT. 



(a) Sporidia elliptic or oblong. 



22. Mollisia graminis. (Desm.) 



Gregarious or scattered, erumpent, hemispherical, 

 rugulose, umber or cinereous-umber ; hymenium pale 

 umber or pallid-grey ; margin fimbriate, villose-white ; 

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

 elliptic, 15 x 2'5 j u ; paraphyses filiform, stout. 



Peziza graminis Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," ed. i. No. 1066 ; 

 Karst, "Mon. Fez," p. 160 (?). Mollisia graminis 

 Karst, "Myco. Fenn," p. 195 ; Gill., "Champ," p. 122. 



