IIYMENOSCYPIIA. 



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Cups pale cinnamon or brownish-yellow . . 



Cup externally yellow 



Cup externally brown 



SU in short, black 



Stem short, yellowish-brown 



Stem short, white or greyish-brown 



Stem rather long, pallid-brown 



Stem more or less elongated, stout, pale brow 



(on seed- vessels) 

 Stem more or less elongated, brown, darker at the 



base (on leaves) 



{Cup cyathiform or plane 

 Cup urceolate (on Equisetum) 



Externally furfuraceous 



Externally villous 



Externally glabrous 



Stem long, tomentose below ; disc orange-yellow 



Stem long, subflocculose ; disc yellowish-red 

 •{ Stem long, glabrous (at first pubescent) 

 j Stem long, glabrous ; sporidia large . . 

 (Stem short, tomentose below ; disc darkish-yello 



Externally pruinose ; margin fimbriate 



Externally pruinose ; margin subdenticulate 



Externally perpendicularly striate 



Externally glabrous 

 fGrowiug on larch-leaves 



Growing on pine-leaves 



Growing on wood 



Growing on petioles 



^Growing on herbaceous stems 



(Sporidia oblongo-fusiform 



\ Sporidia narrowly fusiform or linear 



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renisporum. 



lutescens. 



2 



strobilina. 



cahjculus. 



ameuti. 



monilifera. 



cacalix. 



petiolorum. 



Broomei. 



Persoonii* 



rhizopliila. 



Laburtd. 



5 



Hedwigii. 



virgultorum. 



fructigena. 



scut tela. 



a urea. 



coucolor. 



eburnea. 



TJrtica. 



7 



advenula. 



subtile. 



sordida. 



albida. 



8 



clavata. 



cyathtridt a. 



A. SPORIDIA OBLONG OR OBLONGO-ELLIPTIC. 



(a) On dead tvood. 

 21. Hymenoscypha Broomei (no v. sp.). 



Scattered, stipitate, cyathiform or plane, flesh red, 

 glabrous, firm ; margin entire ; stem rather slender, 

 cylindrical, flexuous ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, 

 oblong, rounded at the ends or subfusiform, 15 X 5/z. 

 (Plate V. fig. 27.) 



Peziza araneosa — Bull., Kew Herbarium. 



On dead wood. 



Cup 1 line broad, 1 line high. 



Name — After Mr. C. E. Broome. 



* Removed to genus Stamnan'a. 



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