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glabrous stem, rather short, tapering to the base; asci 

 lindraceo-clavate \ sporidia 8, elliptic, rarely sub- 

 clavate, 20 X 4 — 5fj. ; paraphyses filiform, slender. 

 Pezizaflava — Klotzsch in Kew Herb.! 



On decorticated wood. 



Cup about \ to J a line broad. 



Name — Flauus, yellow. 



7. Helot ium lentiadare. (Bull.) 



Cup substipitate or sessile, fleshy, firm, convex, ad- 

 pressed to the wood, luteus ; stem papillreform, often 

 nigrescent ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong, 

 oblong-elliptic, or clavate, 10 — 15 x 3 — 45^. 



Helotium lentiadare — Berk., " Outl," p. 372; " Eng. 

 Flo," v. p. 203 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2147 ; Fckl, 

 u Symb. My co.," p. 315 ; Gill, " Champ," p. 154. Peziza 

 lentiadaris— Bull, t. 300, f. A, c ; " Flo. Dan," t. 1294, 

 f. 1. P. aurea — Sow, t. 150. H. nigripes — Schum, 

 "Saell," p. 412; Pers, "Myco. Eur," p. 544. 



On dead wood. Autumn. 



About 1 line broad, nearly sessile, glabrous, bright 

 yellow, convex. 



The sporidia were derived from Sowerby's original 

 specimen in Herb. Berk. 



Name — Lenticularis, form of a little lens. 



8. Helotium citrinum. (Hedw.) 



Cup shortly stipitate or sessile, plano-concave, lemon- 

 yellow, waxy, firm, glabrous ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, fusiform or oblong-elliptic, 2 to 3-guttulate, 

 often psendo-uniseptate, 7 — 15 x 3/x; paraphyses filiform. 



Octospora citrina — Hedw., " Mus. Frond," ii. p. 28. 

 Helotium citrinum — Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan," p. 355 ; 

 Berk, « Outl," p. 372 ; Cooke, " Handbk," No. 2145 ; 

 Karst, " Myco. Fenn," p. 120. Peziza citrina — Batsch, 

 fig. 208; Pers, "Syr.. Fung," p. 663; Fries, "Sys. Myco," 

 ii. p. 131 ; Karst, " Pez. et Ascob," p. 32 ; " Mon. Pez," 

 p. 148 ; Nyl, " Pez. Fenn," p. 43 ; Fckl, " Symb. Myco," 

 p. 315. Phialea citrina — Gill, " Champ," p. 109. 



