180 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



form ; sporidia 8, fusiform, 8x2/i; paraphyses filiform, 

 slender. 



Peziza elaphines — B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 

 1325, t. xix. f. 18 ; Grevillea, i. p. 130. Mollisia 

 elaphines — Gill, "Champ.," p. 131. 



Exs.— Cooke, « Fung. Brit./' No. 659 ; Rabh., " Fung. 

 Eur.," 1813. 



On dead wood. January. 



Cup 300/* broad. " Granules often disposed in lines 

 so that the cups are radiated " (B. and Br.). 



Name — t\a<p'ivriQ, a fawn ; fawn-coloured. 



St. Catherine's ; Copthorn, near Shrewsbury ! 



14. Mollisia lignicola (no v. sp.). 



Gregarious or scattered, sessile, at first globose, at 

 length somewhat expanded ; externally scabrous and 

 vertically rugose, brown or blackish-brown, when dry 

 black ; margin subfimbriate from the slightly unequally 

 elongated cells ; hymenium pallid ; asci cvlindraceo- 

 clavate ; sporidia 8, cylindrical or fusiform, obtuse, straight 

 or curved, 5 — 8 X 1'5 — 2/u ; paraphyses indistinct. 



Mollisia lignicola — Phillips in " Grevillea," v. xv. 

 p. 113. 



On old worked wood (on an old gate). 



Cup | to | a line broad ; when dry collapsed, but 

 not plane, even when moist ; asci 35 X 4^u ; sporidia 

 biseriate. The marginal cells have the form of short, 

 septate, blunt hairs when highly magnified. 



Bagley Wood, Berkshire, 1821 ! (Mr. Baxter in Kew 

 Herb.). 



15. Mollisia Grevillei. (Berk.) 



Cups scattered or gregarious, sessile or subsessile, at 

 first globose, then hemispherical, pale umber, farinoso- 

 tomentose ; margin paler and fimbriate ; hymenium the 

 same colour ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong- 

 fusiform, straight or curved, 3-guttulate, 6 — 8 X 2/z; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza Grevillei— Berk., "Eng. Flo.," v. p 198; 



