MOLLISIA. 189 



Name Artemisia, the plant on which it grows. 

 Isle of Wight. 



29. Mollisia melatephra. (Lasch.) 



Gregarious or scattered, minute, erumpent, hemi- 

 spherical, then expanded, soft, rugulose, nearly black; 

 hymenium concave, pale cinereous, becoming black on 

 drying ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, narrowly fusiform, 

 pseuclo-uniseptate, 12 x 1/x; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza melatephra Lasch. in Rabh., " Herb. Myco." ; 

 Karst., "Hon. Fez.," p. 164; Steven., "Myco. Scot./' 

 p. 326 ; " Grevillea," viii. p. 102. Mollisia melatephra 

 (Lasch) Karst., "Myco. Fenn.," p. 197; Gill., "Champ.," 

 p. 130. Peziza conformis Nyl., "Fez. Fenn.," p. 63. 



Exs. Rabh., "Herb. Myco.," No. 825. 



On dead culms of Car ex. 



A minute species, erumpent, orbicular, blackish, 

 except the margin, which is paler. Karsten gives the 

 measurement of the sporidia as 12 20 X 2^u. 



Name julAae, black, rifypa, ashes; from its colour. 



Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 



30. Mollisia foecunda. Phil. 



Cup scattered, minute, at first covered by the 

 epidermis, then erumpent, concave, when moist fuliginous, 

 paler on the margin ; hymenium fuscous-black ; asci 

 broadly clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform, with 3 to 4 large 

 guttulse, 25 30 X 4 O/UL', paraphyses filiform, enlarged 

 at the apices. 



Peziza (Mollisia) fcecunda Phil., "Grevillea," viii. 

 p. 102; Steven., "Myco. Scot.," p. 326. 



On dead stems of Cleocharis. Autumn. 



Cup '5 mm. broad. 



Name F&cundus, fruitful ; from its abundant spo- 

 ridia 



Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 



31. Mollisia palustris. (Rob.) 



Cup scattered or gregarious, erumpent, at first 

 spherical, at length open, plane or almost convex, appla- 



