STAMNARIA. 321 



posing the soft, pallid, sometimes straw-coloured hyme- 

 nium ; asci oblong ; sporidia very long and slender, 

 filiform, flexuous, with a row of globose nuclei, at length 

 repeatedly septate (B. and Br., I. c.). 



Name XtTrroc, slender, atropog, a seed ; from the 

 shape of the sporidia. 



Jedburgh ! 



GENUS III. STAMXARIA. Fckl, " Symb. Myco," 300. 



Cups minute, csespitose, rarely scattered, distinctly 

 stipitate, horny, diaphanous, glabrous, shining, globose- 

 urceolate, hollow ; rnouth narrowed, truncate, and paler ; 

 asci large, having 8 sporidia, which are in two rows, 

 oblong, minutely guttulate, continuous, and hyaline. 



1. Stamnaria Persoonii. (Moug.) 



Cups subglobose or urceolate, glabrous, orange-red ; 

 margin paler, texture horny ; stem very short ; asci 

 cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, elongate-elliptic, guttu- 

 late, 17- -19 X 4 Qfj.' f paraphyses filiform, branched, 

 slightly enlarged at the apices. 



Peziza Persoomi- -Moug. in Pers., "Myco. Eur.," i. 

 p. 288, t. 12, f. 1 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 121 ; " Eng. 

 Flo./' v. p. 201 ; Grev., t. 162 ; Cooke, " Handbk./' No. 

 2088. Peziza Equiseti--Fri.es in MS. ; Gonn. and Rabh., 

 iii. t. 5, f. 5. Lycoperdon Equiseti- -Hoffm., " Crypt.," t. 5, 

 f. 1. Stamnaria Persoonii Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," 

 p. 309. Phialea Persoonii Gill, " Champ.," p. 106. 



Exs. Libert, No. 329; Rabh, "Fung. Eur," 123; 

 Fckl, "F. Rh," 1184, 2409, and 2507. 



On decaying Equisetum, in moist places. Spring 

 and summer. 



Cups 500 to 800// broad ; stem at times nearly absent, 

 or very broad, equalling the breadth of the cup. The 

 margin is often membranaceous, but entire, and paler 

 than below. 



