300 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION. 



BULGARIACE^. 



OMBROPHILA Fr. 



2076. Ombrophila decolorans (IJerk. & Curtis). 

 N.W. — Masham, on rotting oak-stump (' Nat.' Jan. '02). 

 The first European record is based upon the Masham 



specimens ; hitherto a North American species. The type 

 specimen was gathered in Alabama by Peters (5222) and 

 described by Berkeley and Curtis, under Bulgaria decolorans, 

 in Grev. iv. 1876, p. 6 ; it is in Berkeley's Herbarium (North 

 American Fungi, n. 771) at Kew, and is one of those which 

 have undergone re-description there, the full text of which, 

 and a figure, are contained in the Linnean Society's Trans- 

 actions xxxi. pp. 466-7, pi. 18, figs. 23-24. 



2077. Ombrophila clavus Cke. [Peziza. A. & S.] . 

 S.W. — Common in spring, on twigs and dead herbaceous 



stems in very wet places, in the Halifax ; Hebden Bridge; and 

 intervening districts (Fl. Hx.). Filer Carr, and Goitstock, 

 CuUingworth, on twigs in water. Sheffield. 



N.E. — Scarboro', on dead alder-leaves in water. 



N.W. — Masham, on wet, dead grass and twigs ('Nat.' 

 Jan. '02). 



Mid \V. — Skipton, on the underside of rainwater tub in a 

 garden, '03 (J. E. Sutcliffe). 



" \'ery variable in form and size, stem sometimes almost 

 absent, sometimes short and stout, and in rarer cases 1-2 cm. 

 long, and very slender " (Mass. Brit. Fung. Fl. iv., p. 142, 

 figs. 13-14, p. 156). 



2078. Ombrophila rudis Phil. [Peziza. Berk.]. 

 N.E, — Scarboro', on gravel. 



2079. Ombrophila brunnea I'hil. 

 S.W.— Nr. Hebden Bridge ('Nat.' June '94). 



ORBILIA Fr. 



2080. Orbilia coccinella Karst. [Peziza. Sommerf. ; 

 Calloria. Phil. J. 



S.W. — Hardcastle, on wood (Fl. Hx.). 



Trans. Y.N.U., 1905 (pub. 1905). Bot. Series, Vol. 6. 



