HELOTIUM. 163 



absent ; asci clavate ; Bporidia 8, fusiform, straight, or 

 curved, 11 X 2"5/i; paraphyses filiform. 



Peziza phyUophila — Desm., " Crypt. Fr." Helotiam 

 phylloph Hum — Kursk, " Syrnb. ," p. 239. Pezieula phyllo- 

 phila — Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 167. Helotiam albo- 

 punctum — Bucknall, " Fung. Bristol," No. S05. Phialea 

 phyUophila — Gill., " Champ.," p. 105. 



Exs. — Desm., " Ciypt. Fr.," ed. i. 1159. 



On dead leaves of Acer, Fagas, etc. Autumn and 

 winter. 



Cup about 1 J lines broad ; gregarious or scattered. 

 Nearly obconical in outline at first, the cup at length 

 expands, and the disc is slightly concave, and at length 

 often convex. 



Name — (pvXXov, a leaf, <p(\oc, loving ; from its 

 habitat. 



Leigh Downs, Bristol ! (Mr. C. Bucknall). 



20. Helot ium epiphyllum. Fries. 



Cup subsessile, convexo-plane, marginate, pallid- 

 ochraceous, smooth, firm ; stem very short or absent ; 

 asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform or oblong- 

 elliptic, straight or bent, 3 to 4-guttulate, 12 — 15 X 4// ; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Helotium epiphyllum — Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan.," 

 p. 356; Berk., " Outl.," p. 372; Gill., "Champ.," p. 155, 

 c. i. Peziza epiphylla — Pers., " Tent. Disp. Meth.," p. 72 ; 

 " Syn. Fung.," p. 669 ; A. and S., p. 339 ; Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco.," ii. p. 137 ; Karst., " Pez. et Ascob.," p. 35 ; " Mon. 

 Pez.," p. 143; Nyl., "Pez. Fenn.," p. 46; Fckl., " Symb. 

 Myco.," p. 316. 



Exs.— Fckl., No. 1145; Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," 722; 

 Roumg., " Fung. Gal.," 1264. 



On dead leaves. 



Cup about J to 1J lines broad. 



Name — Itri, upon, tyvWov, a leaf; from its habitat. 



Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Cawdor, N.B. ! (Rev. 

 J. Stevenson). Leigh Woods, near Bristol ! (Mr. Cedric 

 Bucknall). 



