176 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



On cones of Pinus sylvestris. 



Cup J to J a line broad. This differs from P. cinerea 

 (Batsch) in the browner shade, and always occurring on 

 cones. 



Name — Fallax, deceitful; from its resemblance to 

 others. 



Generally distributed. 



(0) On herbaceous stems. 

 7. Mollisia cyanites (nov. sp.). Cooke and Phil. 



Gregarious, minute, sessile, concave, then plane, 

 black ; margin fimbriate ; hymenium bluish grey ; asci 

 clavate ; sporidia 8, cylindraceo-fusiform, elongated, 5 to 

 7-guttulate, 25 X o/u; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



On herbaceous stems. 



Cup J to J of a line broad. 



Name — Kvavog, dark blue. 



Scotland (?) ; Klotzsch in Kew Herbarium. ! 



8. Mollisia atro-cinerea. (Cooke.) 



Gregarious or scattered, sessile, slightly concave or 

 plane ; externally black, glabrous ; hymenium cinereous ; 

 asci clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform or cylindrical, straight 

 or curved, 5 — 7 xl/i; paraphyses not seen. 



Peziza atro-cinerea — Cooke in Exs. " Fung. Brit.," No. 

 382. 



On herbaceous stems (?). 



Cups J to J of a line broad. 



Name — Ater, black, cinis, ashes ; from the black 

 exterior and the ashy disc. 



9. Mollisia Teucrii. (Fckl.) 



Gregarious, sessile, watery transparent, very pale 

 yellowish-white, somewhat ochery-yellow, at first nearly 

 closed, excavated, becoming plane, orbicular, marginate, 

 outside the margin scarcely pubescent ; hymenium same 

 colour, when dry becoming yellow ; asci cylindrical 

 globose-stipitate ; sporidia 8, cylindrical or fusiform 

 8x1ju; paraphyses filiform. 



