MOLLIS! A. 195 



Name — Mains, the specific name of Pyrus mains, 

 the crab. 



Near Shrewsbury ! 



D. SPORIDIA OBLONG-FUSIFORM OR FUSIFORM. 



42. Mollisia versicolor. (Desm.) 



Very minute, sessile, white-hyaline, fragile, glabrous, 

 at first globose, then turbinato-concave, slightly furfu- 

 raceous externally ; margin subdenticulate ; asci clavate 

 sporidia 8, oblong-fusiform, biseriate, 10 — 15 X 3^. 



Peziza versicolor — Desm., "Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1853, vol. 

 xx. p. 230 ; Steven., " Myco. Scot.," p. 325 ; " Grevillea," 

 viii. p. 102. Phialea versicolor — Gill, " Champ./' p. 106. 



On fronds of dead Pteris aquilina. June. 



Cups rarely exceed o mm. in width ; their consist- 

 ence is very soft ; colour pure milk-white, but the least 

 bruising, or the prick of a pin, causes them to turn 

 yellow (Desm.). I have not observed this in British 

 specimens. 



Name — Versicolor, changing colour. 



Forres, N. B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 



43. Mollisia pineti. (Batsch.) 



Gregarious or scattered, sessile, nearly plane ; margin 

 inflexed, obtuse, when dry contracted to a globose form, 

 firm, growing greyish brown, when young whitish 

 granulate or furfuraceous; hymenium pallid or greyish 

 white ; asci C} 7 lindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-fusi- 

 form or elongate-fusiform, 2-guttulate, 8 — 1*4 X 3/x ; 

 paraphyses filiform, stout. 



Peziza pineti— Batsch, " EL," p. 201, f. 140 ; Fries, 

 "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 101; " Eng. Flo.," v. p. 197; Karst., 

 " Pez. et Ascob.," p. 20 ; " Mon. Pez.," p. 189 ; Nyl, " Pez. 

 Fenn.," p. 52; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2050. Pseudo- 

 kelotium pineti — Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 298. Lachnea 

 pineti — Gill., " Champ.," p. 83. Helotium pineti — Pat., 

 p. 213, f. 493. 



Exs.— Fckl, "F. Rh.," 1167; Rehm, " Asco.," 561. 



