190 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



nate, whitish or afterwards greyish brown; hymenium 

 pallid-grey ; margin sinuose, entire ; asci cylindraceo- 

 elavate, narrowed at the apex ; sporidia 8, fusiform or 

 elongated acicular, guttulate, straight, 6 — 10 X 1 — 2/x; 

 paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza palustris — Rob. in Desm., " Crypt. Fr." ; Desm., 

 "Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1847, p. 187; Karat., "Mon. Pez.," p. 163. 

 Mollisia pcdustris — Karst., "Myco. Fenn.," p. 195; Gill., 

 "Champ." p. 120. 



Exs.— Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," ed. i. No. 1543. 



On dead culms and leaves of Juncus. Autumn. 



Allied to Peziza graminis and P. cinerea. 



Name — Palus, a marsh ; growing in a marsh. 



Near Shrewsbury ! 



32. Mollisia Digitalina. Phil. 



Scattered or crowded, globose, at length expanded, 

 externally black, squamulose, margin paler ; hymenium 

 cinereous ; asci clavate, somewhat pointed ; sporidia 8, 

 cylindrical, straight or bent, 5 — 7 l'3^u ; paraphyses 

 filiform. 



Peziza atrata, var. Bigitalina — Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 

 No. 128. 



On Digitalis purpurea. 



Cup 300—800^ across. 



Name — Digitalis, the foxglove ; from its habitat. 



Shrewsbury ! 



Subgenus III. — Dilutella. Phil. 



Sessile, hemispherical, becoming concave or plane, 

 soft, glabrous, pallid, white, or roseate ; sporidia sub- 

 globose, oblong, or fusiform. Type, P. dilutella. (Plate 

 VI. fig. 34.) 



Name — Dilutus, washed out ; pale-coloured. 



Arrangement of the Species. 



a. Sporidia elliptic . . . . . . . . species 33 



b. Sporidia linear or subfusiform .. .. „ 31-37 



