328 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



2. Calloria chrysostigma. (Fries.) 



Gregarious, sessile, with a broad stem-like base, 

 bright yellow, sometimes white, soft, submembranaceous, 

 globose, then plano-concave, at first slightly pubescent, 

 then glabrous ; asci clavate or cylindraceo-clavate ; spo- 

 ridia 8, fusiform, straight, 12 X 2fx ; paraphyses filiform. 



Peziza chrysostigma — Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 128. 

 Helotium chrysostigma — Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 148 ; 

 Gill., "Champ.," p. 155. 



On dead fronds of Pteris aquilina, Athyrium, etc. 



A very minute and variable species, now yellow, now 

 white ; at first pubescent, then glabrous. 



Name — xpvvog, gold, ariyfia, a point. 



King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



(b) Sporidia cylindrical. 



3. Calloria stereicola. (Cooke.) 



Gregarious, minute, sessile or substipitate, globose, 

 then cup-shaped, between fleshy and waxy; externally 

 woolly, of a delicate rosy-pink when dry ; hymenium 

 the same colour ; asci subclavate ; sporidia 8, cylindrical, 

 obtuse, 7 X 1'5/x; paraphyses slenderly filiform. 



Peziza stereicola — Cooke in " Grevillea," i. p. 130. 



Exs.— Phil., " Elv. Brit.," No. 186. 



On the hymenium of Stereum. 



Cups 300 to 700^u broad. The delicate pubescence is 

 seen best in recently collected specimens ; some of the 

 cups are furnished with a decided stem ; when moist the 

 flesh is soft. 



Name — Stereum, a genus of fungi, colo, to inhabit. 



Scotland (Herb. Edin.). Sutton Park, Birmingham 

 (Mr. W. B. Grove). Colwyn, North Wales ! 



B. EXTERIOR OF CUPS NAKED. 



(a) Sporidia subglobose. 



4. Calloria coccinella. (Sommf.) 



Scattered or gregarious, sessile, minute, subtremel- 

 lose when moist, collapsing when dry, flesh-red; asci 



