130 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



22. Hymenoscypha monilifera. (Fckl.) 



Stipitate, scattered or csespitose ; cup seated 

 amongst Bispora, at first subclavate, at length dilated ; 

 hyinenium concave, patellate when mature, marginate, 

 waxy, externally as well as the rather long stem, smooth, 

 pallid-brown; disc slightly darker; asci elongated; 

 sporidia 8, biseriate, oblong, attenuated towards each 

 end, but obtuse, at length uniseptate, 12 X 4/*, hyaline ; 

 paraphyses filiform, subclavate. 



Bispora monilifera — Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 310. 

 Peziza monilifera — Cooke, " Grevillea," iv. p. 111. 



Exs.— " F. Rh," 74. 



Amongst Bispora monilioides on cut timber. 



Cup J to 1 line broad, J to 1J lines high. 



Fuckel has constituted a new genus, under the name 

 Bispora, for this species, of which he assumes that 

 Bispora monilioides is the conidial form. 



Name — Monile, a necklace, and fero, to carry; from 

 its relationship to Bispora monilioides. 



Dupplin Castle, N.B. 



23. Hymenoscypha Heduigii (nov. sp.). 



Cup stipitate, concave or plane, yellow tinged with 

 orange, margin entire, paler beneath ; stem rather long, 

 lower half tomentose,vhite and enlarged; asci cylindraceo- 

 clavate ; sporidia oblong or oblong-elliptic, biguttulate, 

 7—10 X 3/z. 



Octospora fungoidaster — Hedw., " Mus. Frond.," ii. 

 p. 53, t. xix. figs. 1—4. Peziza fructiyinea, /3. virgultorum 

 — Fries, " Sys. Myco./' ii. p. 118. P. virgultorum — "Flo. 

 Dan.," t. 1016, f. 2. 



On twigs of hazel. May. 



Cup J to 1 J lines broad, height about the same. The 

 cups are at first concave, then plane ; the stem is white, 

 enlarged at the base, and attached to the wood by white 

 mycelium. 



Name — After Joannes Hedwig. 



Hanwood, near Shrewsbury ! 



