HELOTIUM. 169 



p. 356 ; Berk., ■ Out].," p. 372 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 

 2159. 



On dead oak leaves. 



Name — Punctum, a point, forma, shape; from the 

 shape. 



Edinburgh (Dr. Greville). 



32. Helotium phascoides. Fries. 



Of a waxy or watery consistence, minute, pallid, 

 with a brick-red tinge ; head turbinate, plane ; stem 

 short, sub-equal. 



Peziza phascoides — Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 138; 

 " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 204. Helotium, phascoides — Fries, 

 " Summa Veg. Scan.," 355 ; Berk., " Outl./' p. 372 ; Cooke, 

 44 Handbk.," No. 2136. 



On small mosses. 



" Mr. Wilson's specimens are subgregarious and 

 perhaps a less red tinge, as far as may be judged from 

 the dry plant, but there is no doubt that they are what 

 Fries intends " (Berk, in " Eng. Flo.," I c). 



I have not seen this ; it is not in Mr. Berkeley's 

 herbarium. 



Name — Phascum, the genus of mosses on which it 

 grows. 



33. Helotium, ochraceum. (Grev.) 



Cup shortly stipitate or sessile, smooth, yellowish- 

 brown, fleshy; disc paler, concave, plane, or convex, 

 sprinkled with granular shining particles; asci cylin- 

 draceo-clavate ; sporidia 8. 



Helotium ochraceum — Berk., " Outl.," p. 372 ; Cooke, 

 "Handbk.," No. 2148. Peziza oc/mztm— Grev., t. 5; 

 " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 204. 



On the bark of a fallen tree. Autumn. 



Plants minute, gregarious, of an ochery brown colour, 

 globular and concave in the young state, and gradually 

 becoming plane or even somewhat convex ; substance 

 thick and fleshy, not shrinking much in drying ; margin 

 depressed, rounded, entire, somewhat showing a tendency 



