BELONIDIUM. 149 



Peziza v ata — Karst., " Mon. Pez," p. 139; " Myco. 

 Fenn.," p. 163. Phialea culmicola— Gill, " Champ.," 103. 



Exs.— Rabh, " Fung. Eur," ed. ii. 519 and 'I'll ; Karst, 

 "Fung. Fenn," 545 ; Phil, " Elv. Brit," 116; Desm, 

 " Crypt. Fr," 282, ed. ii. No.^ 28. 



On dead culms of Graminice. 



Cup about 500/z broad. The margin is usually 

 fimbriated, the cup fibroso-striate, the texture waxy. 



Name — Culmus, corn-straw, colo, to inhabit. 



Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. 

 Plowright). Shelton Rough, near Shrewsbury ! 



2. Belonidium minutissimum. (Batsch.) 



Cup at first clavate or obovate, then cupulate, pallid- 

 white, glabrous ; stem very short, attenuated at the base ; 

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

 curved, 4-septate, constricted at the septa, 30 X Qju ; 

 paraphyses filiform. 



Peziza minutissima — Batsch, f. 143 ; B. and Br, "Ann. 

 Nat. Hist," No. 1071, t. 15, f. 21; Cooke, " Handbk," 

 No. 2095. P. Helminthosporii — Blox. in Herb. Kew. 



On Helminthosporia. Winter. 



Very minute. 



" Pallid ; cups clavate, substipitate ; margin incurved ; 

 sporidia "0014 inch (40/x) long, quadriseptate. Interest- 

 ing from the marked character afforded by the sporidia " 

 (B. and Br, I. c). 



Name — Minutus, minute ; very minute. 



Twycross ! (Rev. A. Bloxam). Batheaston, near Bath 

 (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



B. SESSILE. 



(a) Sporidia elliptic or oblong. 

 3. Belonidium lacustre. (Fries.) 



Sessile, applanate, orbicular, soft, waxy, plano-convex, 

 dingy blackish ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, elliptic or 

 oblong-elliptic, at length 1 to 3-septate ; paraphyses 

 filiform. 



