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placed in the same subgenus. In a more consistent 

 classification of the Discomycetes, this and the two pre- 

 ceding subgenera should be closely associated with the 

 series Phialea of Fries. 



Name — Sp'iZ, hair, and g\^oq, a cup. In allusion to 

 the hair-like processes with which the margin and some- 

 times the exterior are furnished. 



20. Hymenoscypha coronata. (Bull.) 



Cup at first pyriform or hemispherical, then cyathi- 

 form, glabrous, pallid or yellowish, margin crowned with 

 setaceous teeth ; stem slender, straight or curved ; asci 

 cylindrical; sporidia 8, fusiform, 15 — 20 X 3 — 4^u; para- 

 physes rather stout, enlarged upwards. (Plate V. fig. 26.) 



Peziza coronata — Bull., " Champ.," p. 251, t. 416, f. 4 

 Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. 120; Pers., "Obs.," ii. p. 36 

 D. C, "Flo. Fr.," ii. p. 83; Karst., "Pez. et Ascob.," p. 29 

 and " Mon. Pez.," p. 135 ; Nvl., " Pez. Fenn.," p. 38 ; Cooke 

 "Handbk," No. 2086; Gonn. and Rabh., iii. t. 6 

 f. 9 ; Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 307. P. radiata— Pers. 

 "Syn. Fung.," p. 662; "Myco. Eur.," i. p. 287; Nees 

 " Sys.," f. 293. P. subulata— Schum., " Flo. Dan.," 1. 1380 

 P. denticulata — Schum., "Flo. Dan.," t. 1016, f. 3. Helo 

 Hum coronatum — Karst., " Symb.," p. 237 ; " Myco 

 Fenn.," p. 136. Phialea coronata — Gill., " Champ.," p. 110 



Exs.— Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," ed. i. 872, ed. ii. 72 

 Rabh., "Herb. Myco.," eel. ii. 219; Karst., "Fung. Fenn.,' 

 146; Fckl., "F. Rh.," 1183; Phil, " Elv. Brit.," 121 

 Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," ed. ii. 379. 



On dead herbaceous stems. Autumn and winter. 



Cup \ to 1 line broad ; stem \ to \\ line high. 

 Scattered or gregarious ; whitish, pallid, or tinged with 

 yellowish brown. 



Name — Corona, a crown. 



Shobdon, Herefordshire ! Frequent. 



Var. inflexa. (Bolt.) 



Whitish, teeth triangular. 



Peziza inflexa — Bolt., t. 106, f. 2 ; Sow., t. 306 ; 



