160 BEITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



straight or slightly curved, 2 to 4-guttulate, or spuriously 

 1 to 3-septate, 25 — 30 X 5 — 7/u ; paraphyses filiform, 

 stout. 



Helotiwm salicellum — Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan.," p. 

 356 ; Berk, " Outl," p. 372 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 

 2151; Gill, "Champ," p. 157. Peziza salicella — Fries, 

 " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 133 ; B. and Br, " Ann. Nat. Hist," 

 No. 573*; Karst, "Pez. et Ascob," p. 34; "Mon. Pez," p. 

 134 ; Nyl, " Pez. Fenn," p. 45. 



Exs.— Rabh, "Fung. Eur," 1707; Cooke, "Fung. 

 Brit," 558. 



On branches of Salix. August to October. 



Cup i to 1 line broad. The measurement of sporidia 

 is from Drs. Nylander and Karsten. 



Name — Salix, a willow ; growing on a willow. 



Neatishead (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Nescliffe, Salop ! 

 Shrewsbury ! 



13. ffelotium melleum. B. and Br. 



Pallid honey-colour ; stem short, cylindrical ; cups 

 plane, flexuose ; margin elevated, inflexed ; asci elongated, 

 lanceolate ; sporidia biseriate, fusiform, curved on one 

 side, multiguttulate, 30^u. 



Helotium melleum — B. and Br, " Ann. Nat. Hist," 

 No. 1487 ; " Grevillea/' iii. p. 122. 



On rotten wood. 



" About a line broad ; stem half as much high. Allied 

 to H. luteolum " (B. and Br.). 



Name — Melleus, like honey ; the colour of honey. 



New Pitsligo (Bev. J. Fergusson). 



14. Helotium pileatum. Karst. 



Cup stipitate, slightly concave, becoming convex ; 

 margin deflexed, frequently repando-lobate, whitish, 

 livid, or pallid with a bluish tinge ; stem short, thickened 

 upwards ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong- 

 elliptic or oblong-fusiform, becoming pseudo-uniseptate, 

 25 — 35 X 5 — 7/ul ; paraphyses filiform, stoutish, granular 

 within. 



