3G8 BRITISH DISCOMYOETES. 



On oak. 



Cup about 1 line broad, forming a continuous layer, 

 but sometimes separate. 



Name Ruber, red, tingo, to dye. 

 Batheaston ! (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



18. Patellaria litoralis. Phil, and Plow. 



Cups scattered or crowded, minute, black ; hymenium 

 fuliginous-brown, concave ; margin incurved, serrated ; 

 asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, linear-fusiform, 3 to 

 6-guttulate, straight or a little bent, 25 x 2/* ; paraphyses 

 filiform, slender. 



Peziza (Mollisia) litoralis Phil, and Plow., " Gre- 

 villea," iv. p. 121, t. 62, fig. 4; Steven., "Myco. Scot.," 

 p. 324 



On dead wood washed up from the loch. 



Cups about 500 to 800 lines broad ; externally 

 granular. 



Name Litus, the shore; found on the shore of the 

 loch. 



Lynwilg, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 



Hyaline, septate. 

 19. Patellaria maura Phil, and Plow. 



Cups sessile, scattered, at first globose, becoming 

 patellate, fuliginous-black ; margin raised, crenulate ; asci 

 cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, narrowly elongate-fusi- 

 form or subcylindrical, straight or curved, 30 38 X 5 6^u; 

 paraphyses filiform, summits hooked. 



Peziza (Mollisia) maura Phil, and Plow., " Gre- 

 villea," iv. p. 122, t. 62, f. 3. 



On dead wood. Autumn. 



Cups about \ a line broad. The margin is torn ; the 

 asci have a narrow elongated base, and the paraphyses 

 are hooked or even curled at the summit. 



Name Maurus, a Moor ; dusky-coloured. 



Dinmore, Herefordshire ! 



