HELOTIUM. 1G1 



Helotium pileatum — Karst., "Myco. Fenn.," p. 130. 



On dead twigs, buried under the soil in very damp 

 places. Autumn. 



Cups about 1 line broad, about the same in height ; 

 Scattered, glabrous, semitransparent, but firm. This has 

 the largest sporidia of any British species I am acquainted 

 with. 



Name — Pileatus, wearing a cap; from the capitate 

 head. 



Q3) On herbaceous stems. 

 15. Helotium sublateritium. B. and Br. 



Pallid, brick- red ; stem short, cylindrical, delicately 

 whitish villose, becoming smooth ; cups plane, veined 

 beneath ; margin elevated ; asci linear ; sporidia uni- 

 seriate, shortly fusiform, biguttate, 25 X ou. 



Helotium sublateritium — B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. 

 Hist./' No. 1488; "Grevillea," iii. p. 122. 



On stems of herbaceous plants. 



Name — Sub, somewhat, later, a brick ; somewhat 

 brick-red. 



Glamis, N.B. 



16. Helotium repandum (nov. sp.). 



Cup shortly stipitate, plane, repand, thin, pale 

 yellow, margin sublobate; stem very short, attenuated 

 at the base ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, sub 

 cylindrical or oblong-elliptic, 7 — 10 X 2u ; paraphyses 

 filiform, slender. 



On Spiraea ulmaria in damp places. 



Cup about J to J a line broad. 



Name — Repandus, bent backwards. 



Scotland ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 



(7) On leaves and fronds. 



17. Helotium sulphuratum. (Schum.) 



Cup stipitate or subsessile, at first orbicular, con- 

 cave, then expanded, margin entire, between sulphur 



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