MOLLISIA. 177 



Niptera Teucrii — Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," supp. i 

 p. 47. 



Exs.— Fckl., " F. Rh.," 2378 ; Phil., - Elv. Brit.," No. 

 181. 



On dead stems of Teucrium scorodonia, in damp 

 places. 



Cups 500/i broad, often crowded, when dry nearly 

 black ; asci with a subglobose base. 



Name — Teucrium, a genus of Labiacece. 



Trefrew, North Wales ! 



10. Mollisia urticicola. Phil. 



Gregarious, sessile, subhemispherical, becoming nearly 

 plane, externally glabrous, pale rufous-brown ; margin 

 fimbriate ; hymenium from pale cinereous to pale brown ; 

 asci cylindraceo-clavate ;• sporidia 8, fusiform or cylin- 

 drical, 7xl|«; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza lorticicola — Phil, " Elv. Brit.," No. 177. 



On dead stems of Urtica, lying in a damp place 

 occasionally inundated. 



Cups about 500/* broad. 



Name — Urtica, the nettle, colo, to inhabit. 



Shelton Rough, near Shrewsbury ! 



(d) Oil culms of Arundo. 

 11. Mollisia arundinacea, (D. C.) 



Gregarious, erumpent, sessile, plane, orbicular, thin, 

 waxy ; hymenium pallid, becoming fuliginous ; margin 

 narrow, darker ; asci cylindraceo-clavate : sporidia 

 narrowly fusiform, 10 — 15 x 2/t. 



Xyloma arunclinaceum — D. C, * Flo. Fr.," vi. p. 162 ; 

 Eustegia arundinacea — Fries, "Sys. Myco." ; "Elench.," p. 

 112; " Grevillea," iv. p. 67. Stegia arundinacea — Fckl, 

 " Symb. Myco.," supp. i. p. 328. 



Exs.— Moug. and Nest, No. 983; Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," 

 11, No. 380. 



On culms of Arundo Phragmites. 



About J of a line broad; usually seated on a blackish 



