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evident affinity of this species to P. vinosa induces us to 

 place it in Mollisia rather than in Tapesia" (M. J. Berk.). 



Name Aurum, gold, color, colour; golden-yellow. 



Gopsal (Rev. A. Bloxam). 



18. Calloria inflatula. (Karst.) 



Gregarious, nearly plane, thin, hyaline-white, when 

 dry globose-inflated, angularly contracted, dirty-yellow 

 or nearly brick-red ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, 

 acicular-filiform, 4 7 X 5ju. 



Peziza inflatula Karst., " Mon. Fez.," p. 175. Orbilia 

 inflatula Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 100. 



On bark and wood. 



Cups J- to f of a line broad. Nearly allied to Peziza 

 epipora, Nyl. 



Leigh Woods and Stapleton Park, near Bristol ! (Mr. C. 

 Bucknall). 



19. Calloria diaphana. (Sow.) 



Scattered, urceolate, then plane, whitish, hyaline. 



Mollisia diaphana Gill., " Champ./' p. 132. Peziza 

 vulyaris, Fries, var. /3. diaphana Sow., " Fung.," t. 389, 

 f. 7. Mollisia vulyaris Gill., " Champ.," p. 119. 



On fallen branches. 



Name Siatyavfo, diaphanous; transparent. 



Order V. DERMATE.E. Fries. 



Receptacles corky, coriaceous, or horny, mostly 

 erumpent and csespitose, sessile or substipitate, urceolate, 

 concave or plane ; epiphytal. (Plates X., XL figs. 64-69.) 

 In some of the genera included here spermogonia and 

 pycnidia have been observed. 



The plants in this order are characterized by their 

 firm texture and dark colour, varying from rhubarb- 

 brown to umber-brown and black ; they are nearly all 

 erumpent, and the majority caespitose and united at the 



