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Fig. Si.— Hymenoscyplia coronala Hhil. 

 (Natural size and enlarged five times.) 



GENUS XLV.—HYMENOSCYPHA Fr. 

 Receptacle cup-shaped, opening freely, glabrous, with a slender 

 stalk. There are fifty British species 

 of Hymenoscyplia ; one is represented 

 by a model. 



196. Hymenoscypha firma Phil. — 

 Cup infundibuliform, then expanded, 

 repand, firm, smooth, dark or pale 

 brown ; stalk more or less elongated, 

 becoming blackish-brown, attenuated 

 downwards. 



Common on rotten oak sticks; 

 scattered or gregarious ; leathery 

 when fresh, hard when dry. 



GENUS XLVI.—HELOTIUM Fr. 



Receptacle sessile or shortly stalked, disc always open, plane 



or convex, waxy, naked. There are thirty- 



O rv ft^Ja).^^. four British species of Helotium. 



197. Helotium vii'gultorum Fr. — Stipitate, 

 tough, glabrous; hymenium yellowish-red, at 

 length rufous ; cup patellaeform or frequently 

 convex ; exterior paler ; stalk slender, at- 

 tenuated downwards, sub-flocculose. 



Common on twigs in damp, shady 

 woods ; gregarious. 



198. Helotium Calyculus Sow. — Cup 

 stipitate, concave, margin elevated or ex- 

 Fig. 82.— Helotium acicuiare Fr. panded, bright, clear, yellowish-brown, 

 [hr'eeuLTf "'' '"'"■■°'' fleshy, firm, smooth; stalk thick, short, 



enlarging upwards into the cup. 

 Grows on decorticated wood and branches. 



GENUS XLVI I. —BULGARIA Fr. 



Receptacle cup-shaped, sub- 

 stipitate or sessile, glabrous ; cups 

 at maturity plane or slightly con- 

 vex ; excipulus gelatinous. There 

 are two British species of Bulgaria. 



199. Bulgaria inquinans Fr. — 

 Caespitose, turbinate, firm, fleshy- 

 gelatinous ; externally wrinkled, ^^^ 



rough, furfuraceoUS, umber ; hy- j-j^ gs.-Bulsaria inquinans Fr. (Natural 



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menmm becoming plane, dark 

 chocolate-brown, then black. 



Common on fallen tree-trunks in autumn. 



size.) 



