114 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



margin in the British specimens is subfimbriate, re- 

 sembling H. petiolorum, Rob., to which, indeed, it is 

 closely allied. 



Name — Renes, the kidneys, (nropog, a, seed ; from the 

 shape of the sporidia. 



Nescliff, near Shrewsbury ! 



E. SPORIDIA CYLINDRICAL. 



(a) On dead wood. 



47. Hymenoscypha sordida. (Fckl.) 



Gregarious, stipitate, glabrous, dirty white, patelli- 

 form, marginate, margin becoming crisped and lacerated, 

 involute; stem firm ; hymenium becoming reddish; asci 

 cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, cylindrical, curved, hya- 

 line, 6— 10 X 1— 2/x. 



Pezizella sordida — Fckl, " Symb. Myco.," p. 299 ■ 

 " Scott. Nat.," vi. 163. 



Exs.— Fckl., " F. Rh.," No. 2078. 



On broome, Rosa canina (Fckl). 



Cup \ to J a line broad, thin, when moist soft ; 

 stem very short. 



Name — Sordidus, dirty ; dingy in colour. 



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



(b) On root-fibres. 



48. Hymenoscypha rhizophila. (Fckl.) 



Cup stipitate, at first infundibuliform, then plane, 

 immarginate, whitish furfuraceous ; hymenium vitelline ; 

 stem rather long ; asci linear, attenuated at each end ; 

 sporidia 8, cylindrical, straight, hyaline, 12 X 2/ll. 



Helotium rhizophilum (Fckl.) — Cooke, " Handbk.," 

 No. 2155 ; Gill., " Champ.," p. 156. Ciboria rhizophila — 

 Fckl, " Symb. Myco.," p. 312. 



Exs.— Fckl., "F. Rh.," No. 1598. 



On rhizomes of grass. May. 



Cup 1 to 1J- lines broad. 



