MOLLISIA. 



103 



Exs. Cooke's " Fung. Brit./' ed. ii. No. 550. 

 On fronds of Pteris aquilina. September. 



species 38, 39 

 40 

 41 

 42-45 

 46 



SUBGENUS IY. MOLLISIELLA. Phil. 



Sessile, hemispherical, then plane, soft, minutely fur- 

 furaceous or pulverulent, light-coloured (except hyd- 

 nicola) ; sporidia globose, sub-elliptic or filiform. (Plate 

 VI. fig. 35.) 



ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 



A. Sporidia globose or subglobose . . 



B. Sporidia sub-elliptic 



c. Sporidia oblong-obtuse 



D. Sporidia oblong-fusiform or fusiform 



E. Sporidia linear 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Hymenium dark green . . hydnicola. 



Hymenium white ... . 1 



Hymenium pallid: on pine-leaves . pineti. 



Hymenium brown . 2 



Hymenium yellowish . . 3 



| On wood . . . . JBullii. 



1. < Oil fern (Pteris] . . versicolor. 



| On herbaceous stems . . effugiens. 



2 if Exterior dirty white . . ilicincola. 



' 1 Exterior rufous-brown . . lurida. 



o ("Exterior pnle yellow ; hymemnm pinkish-yellow straminum. 



' \Exteriorhoney-coloured; hymenium greenish-yellow Mali. 



A. SPORIDIA GLOBOSE OR SUBGLOBOSE. 



38. Mollisia ilicincola. (B. and Br.) 



Crowded or scattered, hemispherical, then expanded ; 

 externally dirty white, furfuraceous ; hymenium concave, 

 pale brown or purple, or rosy cinereous; margin erect or 

 incurved ; asci clavatu ; sporidia 8, globose, with a large 

 globose gutta, 5fj. ; asci filiform, enlarged towards the 

 summit. 



Peziza ilicincola B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 

 958, t. 16, f. 17; Cooke, Handbk.," No. 2064. 



On holly branches, more especially on the surface of 

 the lichen Myriangium, which grows on holly. Winter. 



Name Ilex, holly, colo, to inhabit. 



o 



