188 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



On dead stems of Lychnis dioiea. Autumn. 



Minute, scattered, generally seated on a cinereous 

 stain on the stem. 



The Peziza sphcerioides (Roth., " Ust. Ann.," i. p. 2, 

 t. i. f. 6) is Tympanis conspersa probably. Per soon cites 

 this, and his is probably the same. The specimens 

 published by Desmazieres are the earliest authority for 

 the present species, which Fries thinks may be his 

 Excipula laevigata. Nees, fig. 281, cannot belong to this, 

 but perhaps to Tympanis. The present species is a close 

 ally of Peziza atrata (M. C. C. in litt.). 



Name — atyalpa, sphere, £?Soe, a resemblance. 



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



27. Mollisia Typhce. (Cooke.) 



Gregarious or scattered, minute, erumpent, sessile, 

 black, soft or waxy, soon plane, laterally compressed 

 when dry ; hymenium fuliginous, black when dry, 

 minutely papillate, even ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 fusiform, hyaline, simple, 12 — 14 X 2*5 — Sju. 



Peziza (Mollisia) Typhce — Cooke in " Grevillea," vol. i. 

 p. 131. 



Exs.— Cooke, "Fung. Brit.," ed. i. 570, ed. ii. 388; 

 Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 127. 



On leaves of Typha. 



Externally like P. atrata, but sporidia much longer. 



Name — Typha, the reed mace. 



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



(c) Sporidia cylindrical or acicular. 

 28. Mollisia artemisice. (Lasch.) 



Erumpent, thin, almost stipitate, at first turbinate, 

 then flattened, somewhat rounded, naked, brownish 

 black ; hymenium whitish ; margin incurved ; asci cylin- 

 drical ; sporidia 8, linear, minute, hyaline. 



Peziza artemisice — Lasch. in Rabh., " Herb. Myco.," 

 No. 335 ; "Grevillea," i. p. 131. 



Exs.— Rabh., " Herb. Myco.," No. 335. 



On dead stems of Artemisia vulgaris. 



