IIYMENOSCYrilA. 137 



cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform or clavate, 

 straight or curved, 2 to 3-guttulate or pseudo-septate, 

 13 — .25 x 4 — 6/u; paraphyses filiform. 



Peziza scutula — Pers., " Myco. Eur.," p. 284 ; Fries, 

 "Sys. Myco./' ii. p. 123 j Kickx., "Flo. Flan.," i. 485; 

 Nees, f. 282. Helotium Bcutula — Karst., " Symb.," p. 233 ; 

 "Myco. Fenn.," 110; "Scott. Nat.," vi. 125. Phialea 

 scutula — Gill., "Champ.," p. 108. Helotium virgultorvm 

 —Pat., p. 38, f. 94. 



Exs.— Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," 739; Sacc, "Myco. Ven.," 

 No. 728. 



On dead herbaceous stems, Spirea Ulmaria, etc. 



Cup i to 1 J lines broad ; stem J to 2 J lines long. This 

 species has a group of near allies which can be regarded 

 only as varieties. 



Name — Scutum, a shield ; from its resemblance when 

 fully expanded to a little shield. 



Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. J. Keith). Falmouth ! (Mr. E. M. 

 Holmes). Persley Den, near Aberdeen ! (Professor 

 Trail). 



Var. facata. Phil, in "Elv. Brit.," No. 120. 



Cup subhemispherical ; margin incurved ; disc brown- 

 ish yellow ; externally whitish, stained irregularly with 

 dirty yellow. 



On dead stems of Polygonum lying in water. 



Ellesmere, Salop ! 



Var. LysvmachioB. Phil, in " Elv. Brit.," No. 120a. 



On dead stems of Lysimachia vulgaris. 

 Shrewsbury ! 



Var. Menthol. Phil. 



Cup plane or convex ; disc bright yellow ; stem 

 slender ; sporidia 14 — 2 X 3 — 5fi ; 2 to 3 guttulse, often 

 pseudo-uniseptate. 



Helotium Menthce in " Elv. Brit.," No. 188. 



On decaying stems of Mentha. 



