191 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Chiselhurst ! (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Forres, N. B. ! 

 (Rev. Dr. Keith). 



39. Mollisia hydnicola. (B. and Br.) 



Cups orbicular, then irregular, plane, dark green ; 

 asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, subglobose, uniseriate ; 

 10 X 7 5 [a ; paraphyses filiform, branched. 



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

 1327, t. xx. £ 20 ; " Grevillea," i. p. 131. 



On Hydnum ochraceum. 



Conidia were observed in this species, 2'5 X 3'5/x. 



Name — Hydnum, a genus of fungi, colo, to inhabit. 



B. SPORIDIA SUB-ELLIPTIC. 



40. Mollisia Bullii. (Wor. Smith.) 



Cups hemispherical, at length irregular, sessile or 

 very shortly stipitate, whitish; margin inflexed, rather 

 pulverulent from the remains of the veil ; hymenium 

 often proliferous ; mycelium brownish ; asci subclavate ; 

 sporidia sub-elliptic, minute, 5 — 7"G/x long. (Plate VI. 

 fig. 35.) 



Peziza Bidlii—W.G. Smith, Gard. Chron. (1873), 

 with figure ; B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1324, 1. 19, 

 f. 17 ; " Grevillea," i. p. 120, t. viii. f. 3, vol. ii. p. 162. 



On wooden cistern, December (W. G. Smith). 



Name— After Dr. H. G. Bull. 



C. SPORIDIA OBLONG-OBTUSE. 



41. Mollisia Mali. (Rehm.) 



Gregarious, small, at first globose, then urceolate, 

 finally more or less expanded, pale honey-colour, pruinose ; 

 margin when dry involute, paler, scabrous; hymenium 

 greenish yellow; asci clavate ; sporidia oblong, obtuse, 

 hyaline, 9 x S/ul ; paraphyses filiform. 



Pezizella Mali — Rehm, " Asco.," No. 460. Peziza 

 (Mollisia) Mali—Vhil. and Plow., " Grevillea," xiii. p. 74. 



On dead hollv bark. 



