MOLLISIA. 



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Externally 

 granules 

 Externally 

 Externally 

 Externally 

 Externally 

 white 



1 Externally 

 Externally 

 late: on 

 Externally 

 Externally 

 Externally 

 sinuous 



fawn-colour, sprinkled with saccharine 

 : on wood 



black, rugose; margin whitish. . 

 black, rugose ; margin erect : on Lychnis 

 black, rugose: on Car ex. . 

 umber-brown, glabrous ; margin entire, 



• • • ■ • • •• •• •• 



tawny, glabrous ; margin tumid 

 cinereous, granulated ; margin denticu- 



lt-'il\ I'S •• •• •• •• •• 



cinereous ; margin entire, paler 



brownish black : on Artemisia 



whitish or greyish brown ; margin entire, 



elaphines. 

 at rata, 

 sphxroides. 

 melatephra. 



paulula. 

 arenevaga. 



vihurnicola. 



ebuli. 



artemisise. 



palustrie. 



A. SUPERFICIAL 



(a) Sporidia elliptic or oblong. 



12. Mollisia nervisequia. (Pers.) 



Sessile, seriate, at first nearly globose, then expanded, 

 perpendicularly rugose, blackish grey ; margin crenulate, 

 paler ; hymenium concave, cinereous or black ; asci 

 clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic or oblong, 13 X S/u ; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender. (Plate VI. fig. 33.) 



Peziza nervisequia — Pers., " Myco. Eur.," 308 ; Fries, 

 " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 1 93 ; B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist./' 

 No. 1171; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2121. 



Exs.—Desm., " Crypt. Fr," 2012; Roumg., " Stirpes," 

 331. 



On dead leaves of Plantago lanceolata ; chiefly on the 

 nerves of the leaves. Winter. 



This very much resembles M. plantaginis, but the asci 

 and sporidia are much larger, besides the habit of growth 

 on the nerves. 



Name — Nervus, a nerve, and sequor, to follow. 



Batheaston (Mr. C. E. Broome). 



(b) Sporidia subfwsiform. 

 13. Mollisia elaphines. (B. and Br.) 



Gregarious, subglobose, sessile, pale fawn-colour; 

 mouth paler, white, sprinkled with saccharine granules ; 

 hymenium watery-grey ; asci clavate or clavate fusi- 



