CHLOROSPLENIUM. 147 



On fir-cones and ash-stumps. 

 Cup 5 lines broad ; entire height about the same. 

 Name — Verto, to turn, forma, shape ; variable in 

 form. 



Apethorpe ! (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 



B. SPORIDIA FUSIFORM. 



2. Chlorosplenium ceruginosum. (" Flo. Dan.") 



Cup shortly stipitate or sessile, head turbinate, then 

 expanded, subnexuose, verdigris-green ; hymenium paler ; 

 stem short, rather stout ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 

 8, fusiform, 10 — 14 X 3*5 — 45/x ; paraphyses filiform, 

 slender. (Plate V. fig. 28.) 



Peziza aeruginosa — " Flo. Dan.," t. 1260, f. 1 ; Pers., 

 " Syn. Fung.," p. 617 ; and " Myco. Eur.," i. p. 219 ; Fries, 

 " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 130 ; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 202 ; " Grev.," 

 t. 241 ; Sow., 347 ; " Flo. Dan.," 534, 1260, f. 1 ; Nyl, 

 "Pez. Fenn.," p. 41 ; Karst., " Mon. Pez.," 142. Helotium 

 wruginosum — Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan.," p. 353; Fckl., 

 " Symb. Myco," p. 314; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2131; 

 Berk., " Outl," 372 ; Gill., "Champ.," p. 151, c. i. Chloro- 

 splenium wruginosum — Tul., " Select. Fung. Carp.," iii. 

 p. 187. 



Exs. — Berk., No. 281 ; Karst., Nos. 151, 459 ; Rav., v. 

 No. 40; Fckl., " F. Rh.," 1158; Phil., " Elv. Brit," No. 

 86 ; Ellis, " N. A. Fung," 987 ; Roumg, " Fung. Gal," 

 1858; Cooke, " Fung. Brit," ed. ii. 389. 



On fallen oak branches, staining the wood on which 

 it grows, for a considerable depth, of a deep verdigris- 

 green, the wood so stained being employed as " green 

 oak " in the manufacture of Tunbridge ware. The fully 

 developed cups are much more rare than the green 

 mycelioid state. 



The cups are \ to 2 J lines broad ; the stem is very 

 variable in length, and often carries more than one cup. 

 The margin is often lobed, though generally regular. 



Name — jErugo, verdigris ; from the colour. 



Woods near Ludlow ! 



