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cave when young, with totally different spores. Cup 

 •024 inch diameter, growing on Sphceria hir&u&a, and its 

 mycelium, accompanied by a brown mould, consisting of 

 erect, simple, articulated threads, surmounted by a single 

 oblong uniseptate spore, -0005 inch (12/u) long ; asci 

 002 inch (50/i) ; sporidia "0002 to -00025 inch (5 to 6/u) 

 long, -0001 to -00015 inch (2*5 to 35^i) wide ; bright orange 

 when treated with iodine (B. and Br.). 

 Name — A qua, water ; watery. 



B. SPORIDIA OBLONG-ELLIPTIC. 



2. MoUisia epithallina. Phil, and Plow. 



Congregated, sessile, disciform, immarginate, pallid- 

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

 elJiptic, 8 X 2[i ; paraphyses slender, slightly thickened 

 upwards. 



Peziza (Mollisia) epithallina — Phil, and Plow, in 

 " Grevillea," vi. p. 24. 



On thallus of Peltigera canina. 



Name — liri, upon, SaWog, a branch or thallus of a 

 lichen ; from its habitat. 



King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



C. SPORIDIA FUSIFORM OR OBLONG-FUSIFORM. 



(d) On wood. 

 3. Mollisia cinerea. (Batsch.) 



Cups gregarious or scattered, at first urceolate, at 

 length applanate, cinereous or nearly livid ; margin entire, 

 whitish, not unfrequently repand or flexuose ; hymenium 

 when dry cinereous, yellowish, or becoming blackish ; 

 asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong or subfusiform, 

 straight or curved, 5 — 12 X 1 — 2^; paraphyses filiform, 

 slender. 



Peziza cinerea — Batsch, p. 196, f. 137; Pers., "Obs." 

 ii. p. 80; " Myco. Eur.," i. p. 302; Wahl, "Flo. Suec," ii. 



