170 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



to become lobed; barren or inferior surface smooth, 

 rather rugose or puckered towards the root ; hymenium 

 or upper surface appearing as if sprinkled with minute 

 shining particles, not unlike small grains of brown sugar ; 

 tubular cells containing the sporules, filiform, mixed 

 with barren filaments ; sporules 5 to 8 (Grev., I. c). 



Name — Ockraceus, colour of yellow ochre. 



Braid Hermitage, near Edinburgh (Dr. Greville) 

 Shrewsbury (Rev. \V. A. Leigh ton). 



32. Helotium agaricinum. Berk. 



Firm, dark green, convex, rather uneven ; margin 

 revolute ; stem rather thick, obconic ; asci long, flexuous, 

 obtuse. 



Peziza agaricina — Carm., MSS., " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 

 207; Cooke, " Handbk," 2127. 



On decayed wood. 



Plant 1J to 2 lines broad, very much resembling at 

 first sight Helotium virens (Pers. in litt.), but on closer 

 inspection quite different (" Eng. Flo."). 



33. Helotium buccina. Fries. 



Rather large, infundibuliform, dull yellow ; stem 

 thickened, striate, somewhat incurved. 



Peziza buccina — Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 129 ; "Eng. 

 Flo.," v. p. 202. Helotium buccina — Fries, " Summa 

 Veg. Scan.," 355; Berk, "Out!," p. 372; Cooke, 

 "Handbk," 2141. 



On wood and pine branches. Rare. 



Carmichael's original specimen (129, Kew. Herb.) is 

 \ of an inch broad, J high, and decidedly gelatinoso- 

 cartilaginous. It is, to me, a Guepinia, there being no 

 asci present. Carmichael considered it a Tremella. 



34. Helotium sclerotioides. Berk. 



Convex, umbilicate, clear red-brown, concave beneath, 

 and confluent with the short obconic stem ; asci slender ; 

 sporidia (?). 



Peziza sclerotioides — Berk, in "Eng. Fung.," v. p. 



