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Hampstead (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Epping (Mr. Jas. English). 

 Whitfield, near Hereford ! 



SUBGEXUS IY. SCUTELLIXIA. Cooke. 



Cups sessile ; externally clothed with coloured hairs ; 

 margin ciliated with erect, rigid hairs. (Plate VII. fig. 41.) 

 Name Scutdla, a little saucer. 



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ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 

 A. Sporidia globose. 



species 20 



(a) Epispore echinulate 



(6) Epispore smooth 

 B. Sporidia elliptic. 



(a) Epispore asperate. 



(a) Hymenium red, scarlet, or orange 

 (/3) Hymenium yellow .. .. 

 (7) Hymenium livid . . . . 



(?') Epispore smooth. 



(a) Hymeuium red or orange . . 

 (ft) Hymenium yellow . . . . 

 (7) Hymenium white or pallid. . 



KEY TO THE SPECIZS. 



Hymenium brown 

 Hymenium red 

 Hymenium yellow 

 Hymeuium white, cinereous, or livid 

 Growing on dung of animals 

 Growing on spent hops 

 Growing on wood 

 Growing on the earth 

 (Hairs of the cup all simple 



2. < Hairs of the cup having stellate hairs intermixed 

 ( near the bnse 



fHairs of the cup pallid tawny ; sporidia globose 

 Hairs of the cup short, bay ; sporidia subglobose 

 Hairs of the cup short, brown, slender ; sporidia 



oblong-elliptic 

 " Hairs of the cup short, delicate, flexuous; sporidia 



elliptic 

 Hairs of the cup short, brown, slender ; sporidia 



elliptic 



'Hairs brown, bristle-like ; sporidia asperate 

 Hairs nearly colourless, longish,elender; exterior 



whitish 

 j Hairs pale yellow, very long; exterior bright 



brown 



(Hairs chiefly on the margin .. 



3. 



22,23 



2i 



25 



2G-31 

 32-34 

 35-37 



It in idea* 



1 



4 



5 



2 



rubra. 



scutcllafa. 



3 



coprinaria. 



stercorea. 



trechigpora. 



umbrorum. 



Mrta. 

 umbrata. 



carnpn-sanguinea. 

 vittllina. 



tlieleboloides. 



Dalmeniensis. 

 erecta. 



