286 THELEPHOREI. 



Cyphella. Name brunneus, brown. Phill. Grevillea, vol. xiii. p. 49. 



7. C. fraxinicola B. & Br. Minute, orbicular, externally 

 snow-white, shortly villous; disc light yellow, becoming fuscous 

 with the spores, proliferous. 



On ash. Batheaston, 1873. Dec. 



Namefraxmus, ash-tree ; colo, to inhabit. B. & Br, n. 1446. 



** MuscicolcE (growing on mosses], 



8. C. muscigena Fr. Very small, 6-10 mm. (3-5 lin.) broad, 

 shining white, membranaceous-soft, becoming plane, somewhat 

 dimidiate, externally silky under a lens. Hymenium slightly 

 wrinkled. 



A variable form, also stipitate, spathulate, &c. 



On moss. Uncommon. Sept.-Dec. 



At first flabelliform. M.J.B. Name muscus, moss; gigno, to bear. 

 Growing on moss. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 663. Berk. Out. p. 277. C. Hbk. n. 

 946. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 914. Theleph. Pers. Myc. Eur. t. j.f. 6. Canth. 

 laevis Fr. Syst. Myc. i. p. 324. 



9. C. galeata Fr. Whitish, membranaceous-soft, somewhat 

 sessile, obversely cup-shaped, then dimidiate, helmet-shaped, even, 

 margin quite entire. Hymenium at length rufescent, slightly 

 wrinkled. 



When young entire, cup-shaped, grey when moist, snow-white when dry, 

 then rufescent. 



On mosses. Uncommon. 



Name -galea, a helmet. Helmet-shaped. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 663. Berk. 

 Out. p. 277. C. Hbk. n. 947. Fl. Dan. t. 2027.7. i. 



10. C. catilla Smith. Somewhat membranaceous, expanded, 

 margin crisped and undulated. Hymenium veined, 18 mm. (^ 

 in.) broad, grey. 



Often imbricated. Allied to C. galeata. 



On moss and dead leaves. King's Lynn. 



Name catillus, a small bowl. From its shape. Smith Seem. Journ. 

 Bot. 1873, P- 337- 



11. C. muscicola Fr. About 4 mm. (2 lin.) broad, pale-whitish, 

 membranaceous, somewhat sessile, persistently cup-shaped, nod- 

 ding, externally slightly fibrilloso-striate, margin slightly downy, 

 repand, torn. Hymenium even. 



B. cup irregular, externally cinereous. 



