124 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Name — Firmus, firm ; from its firm flesn. 



King's Lynn! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Forres, N.B. 

 (Rev. Dr. Keith). Hawthornden, near Edinburgh ! Down- 

 ton Castle, near Ludlow ! Condover ! Craven Arms ! 

 Church Stretton ! and The Wrekin, Salop. 



15. Hymenoscypha bolaris. (Batsch.) 



Cup infundibuliform or subhemispherical, firm ; ex- 

 ternally fibrilose-veined or wrinkled, nearly ochraceous ; 

 hymenium brown, margin subserrated ; stem rather 

 short, attenuated downwards or equal ; asci cylindrical ; 

 sporidia oblong-elliptic, biguttulate, 14 — 16 X 4 — 6/* ; 

 paraphyses filiform, rather stout. 



Peziza bolaris — Batsch, i. p. 221, f. 155 ; Fries, " Sys. 

 Myco," ii. p. 112; Pers., " Syn. Fung," p. 658; " Myco. 

 Eur," p. 279; A. and S., p. 330; "Eng. Flo," v. p. 

 200 ; Cooke, " Handbk," 2078. Ciboria bolaris— Fckl, 

 "Symb. Myco," p. 311. 



Exs.— Phil, "Elv. Brit," 171 ; ftoumg., "Fung. Gal," 

 1260. 



On dry fallen branches of holly. 



Cup 1J to 2 lines broad and high ; externally paler 

 than the disc ; when dry the margin is inflexed. 



Name — jdCjXog, a clod; perhaps in allusion to the 

 colour. 



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



16. Hymen oscypha Aspegrenii. (Fries.) 



Gregarious, stipitate ; cup subrepand ; hymenium 

 yellow ; externally, as well as the subascending stem, 

 white ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, oblong or oblong- 

 elliptic, biguttulate, 8 — 10 x S'5/u. 



Peziza Aspegrenii — Fries, " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 131. 

 Helotium Aspegrenii — Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan," p. 

 355 ; Berk, " Outl," p. 372 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 2144. 

 Peziza bicolor, var. Sow, t. 369, f. 7. Phialea Aspegrenii 

 —Gill., " Champ," p. 107, c. i. 



On rotten hazel in a wet ditch. Spring. 



" Two to three lines high ; stem somewhat slender ' 

 (Fries). 



