HYMENOSCYPHA. Ill 



broadly elliptic, 18 — 20 X 10 — 12ju ; paraphyses linear, 

 clavate at the apices. (Plate V. fig. 23.) 



Peziza Babingtonii — Berk., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 

 554. Psilopezia Babingtonii — Berk., " Outl.," p. 373 ; 

 Cooke, - Handbk.," No. 2162. 



On rotten wood. 



Cup \ an inch or more broad, contracting greatly in 

 drying, irregular in outline, convex above, mouse-brown ; 

 concave beneath, and slightly wrinkled, pale watery 

 brown, fixed by the border ; asci linear ; spores broadly 

 elliptic; paraphyses linear, their apices clavate (B. and 

 Br., I. a). 



Name — After the Rev. C. Babington. 



Grace Dieu Wood, Leicestershire! (Rev. C. Babington). 



B. HYMEN IUM GREENISH-BLACK. 



2. Psilopezia myrothecioides. B. and Br. 



Sub-orbicular; margin laciniate, tomentose, pallid 

 yellow ; hymenium greenish-black ; asci linear ; sporidia 

 8, elliptic, margin pellucid, 17 — 19 X 10 — 13/i ; para- 

 physes filiform, broadly clavate and brown at the apices. 



Psilopezia myrothecioides — B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. 

 Hist.," No. 1489, t. ii. f. 5 ; " Grevillea " iii. p. 122. 



On Prunus padns. 



Two to five lines broad. The asci are cylindrical, 

 200 fi long, 17/x broad. The clavate apices of the para- 

 physes are 10 to 13^u broad, and brownish. The cells of 

 the excipulum are 20 to 30/x broad. 



Name — Myrothecium, a genus of fungi, etcog, likeness 

 resembling a Myrothecium. 



New Pitsligo (Rev. J. Fergusson). 



Genus III. — Hymenoscypha. Fries. 



Opening freely, naked, glabrous ; cup thin, membra- 

 naceous, but sufficiently firm, supported by the slender 

 sub-equal stem ; hymenium distinct ; asci large, clavate 



