HELOTIUM. 1G7 



27. Helotium Humuli. (Lasch.) 



Cup very shortly stipitate or sessile, convex, 

 becoming slightly concave, lutescent, firm ; asci cylin- 

 draceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform, slender, 2 to 

 3-guttulate, becoming uniseptate, straight or slightly 

 curved, 16 — 20 X 4</i. 



Peziza Humuli — Lasch. in Rabh., "Herb. Myco.," ed. 

 ii. 221, and ed. i. 630. Helotium Humuli — Karst., 

 " Myeo. Fenn.," p. 112. Peziza Humilis — Desin., " Ann. 

 Sc. Nat.," 1847, notice 84. 



Exs.— Roumg., "Fung. Gal./' 1859. 



On dead stems of Hamulus Lupulus. 



Cup 1 line broad, scattered, mostly sessile, thick, 

 waxy, glabrous, at first globose, then the disc becomes 

 slightly depressed, almost marginate. The colour is at 

 first white ; it then changes to pale yellow or pale 

 brown. 



Name — Humulus, the hop ; on hops. 



Llanymynach ! 



28. Helotium badium (nov. sp.). 



Gregarious, erumpent, sessile, at first turbinate and 

 slightly concave, at length plane ; hymenium bay-brown, 

 margin distinct and somewhat lighter; externally the 

 same colour, glabrous ; asci broadly clavate, rather 

 abruptly narrowed at the base ; sporidia 8, oblong- 

 fusiform or subclavate, 3 to 5-guttulate, 20 x 5^t; para- 

 physes filiform, slender. 



On dead twigs (willow ?) 



Cup J to 1 line broad ; margin entire and even. It 

 has a general likeness to H. ferruginewm, but differs 

 altogether in the fruit. 



Botanic Garden, Oxford ! 1822 (Mr. Baxter). 



(/3) On cones. 



29. Helotium conigenum. (Pers.) 



Cup shortly stipitate or sessile, plane, at length 

 convex, pale yellow or pallid, glabrous; stem thick, 



