The Scottish Naturalist. 123 



thick ; spores 8 ; monostichous, fusoid-oblongated, 2-guttulate, even, 

 hyaline, 24-27 mmm. long, 9 mmm. thick; paraphyses moderately 

 numerous, simple, curved at the apex, clavate, pale golden-tawny, 

 tinted blue by iodine. The plant may be recognised at once by the 

 paraphyses alone becoming blue with iodine. 



Var. carnosissima Phill. in litt. 



Sporidia *oi6 - *oi8 x -005 — *oo6 mm. 



On decaying beech-leaves. Autumn. 



East. Tay 



West. 



Glamis, Hunter's Hill, 1880. J. S. 



Europe. 



2195. P. (Sarcoscypha) bulbocrinita Phill. in litt. 



Scattered, sessile, at first globoso-hemispherical, then expanded, 

 concave, externally brown, clothed with long, straight, septate, 

 fulvous hairs, which are bulbous at the base ; disc bluish-grey ; asci 

 cylindrical; sporidia 8, ovate, faintly coloured, '02x'oi3 mm.; 

 paraphyses filiform. The peculiar bulbous base of the long hairs of 

 the exterior is unlike anything seen in this group. 



On damp decaying prunings. July. 



East Moray 



West. 



Forres, 1879. Rev. J. Keith. 



2196. P. (Sarcoscypha) hirto-coccinea Phill. and Plow. Gre- 



v ilka, v Hi. p. 100. 



Sessile, scattered or crowded, fleshy, hemispherical, then expanded, 

 dull scarlet ; margin incurved, clothed with scattered, pale-brown, 

 obtuse, septate hairs, longest on the margin ; flesh pale scarlet ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 8, ovate with one or two large nuclei, "022 x - oi I 

 mm. ; paraphyses rather slender, clavate at the apices, filled with 

 scarlet granules ; cups 6-10 mm across ; the hairs below the margin 

 shorter, often clavate, composed of a single cell. The white mycelium 

 at times conspicuous below the cups. 



On mossy spots on the ground in pine-woods. Aug. 



East. Moray 



West. 



Rothiemurchus, 1879. Rev. J. Keith. 



2197. P. (Dasyscypha) leucophsea Pers. Karst. Myc. Fenn. i. 



p. 177. 



Scattered or gregarious, sessile, hemispherical, pallid, strigoso- 

 villose, with whitish or sulphur-coloured hairs, which become ferru- 

 ginous-brown by drought and age ; epithecium whitish ; asci cylin- 

 draceo-subclavate ; sporidia fusoid-filiform, simple, "007- 'Oi6 x "001 

 - '0015 mm. ; paraphyses rather acute at the apex. 



