200 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



sporidia 8, oblong, obtuse, 2-guttulate, 10 X 3^u; para- 

 physes filiform, slender. (Plate VI. fig. 36.) 



Peziza Cerastiorum- -Wallr. in Fries, "Sys. Myco.," 

 ii. p. 153; Wallr., "Flo. Germ.," 465. Phacidium Ceras- 

 tiorumGilL, "Champ./' p. 169. 



Exs. Cooke, " Fung. Brit./ 5 No. 655 ; Rabh, " Fung. 

 Eur," 1705 and 17056. 



On leaves of Cerastium. 



Cups 300 to 500 /jt broad. 



Name Cerastium, a genus of Caryophyllaceas. 



King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



C. SPORIDIA PYRIFORM. 



(a) On leaves. 

 51. Mollisia Ranunculi. (Wallr.) 



Hypophyllous, gregarious, on discoloured spots, 

 erumpent, then sessile, orbicular; hymenium plane, at 

 first ochraceous, then black; margin distinct, serrated, 

 umber-brown, at length black; sporidia 8, pyriform, 

 septate, 15 X 5/i; paraphyses filiform, sometimes branched. 



Phlyctidium Ranunculi- -Wallr., " Flo. Germ./' 

 p. 416. Dothidea Ranunculi Fries, " Sys. Myco./' ii. 

 p. 562; Berk., "Eng. Flo./' v. p. 287. Excipula Ranun- 

 culi Rabh, " Handbk.," 153. Pkacidium Ranunculi 

 Cooke, "Handbk," No. 2271; Gill, "Champ.," p. 168. 

 Phacidium, litigiosum Rob. in Desm., " Ann. Sc. Nat.," 

 t. 8, 1847, p. 181. 



Exs. Berk., 347; Desm., 1639; Fckl., "F. Rh./' 

 1175; Cooke, "Fung. Brit./' 280, ed. ii. 452; Rehm, 

 "Asco," 659; Kunze, "Fung. Sel./ 5 175, 381; Roumg., 

 " Fung. Gal," 544. 



On fading leaves of Ranunculus repens, etc. 



About 500/x broad. 



Name Ranunculus, a genus of Ranunculacece. 



Forres ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Shere, Surrey ! (Dr. 

 Cap r on). 



