324 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Gill., " Champ.," p. 147, c i. Helvetia sarcoides — Dicks., 

 " Crypt.," i. p. 21 ; Bolt., t. 101, f. 2. Sarcodea sarcoides 

 * umalis — Karst, " Symb. Myeo," p. 232. Coryne 

 sarcoides — TuL, " Select. Fung. Carp.," iii. p. 190, t. 17, 

 f. 1-8; Fckl., "Symb. Myco.," p. 284. Ombrophila 

 sarcoides — Karst., " Myco. Fenn.," p. 86. Spermogonia : 

 Tremella (coryne) sarcoides — Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. 

 p. 217; "Summa Veg. Scan.," p. 341; and " Epicr.," 

 p. 589. Tremella sarcoides — With., p. 78. Coryne 

 sarcoides — Bon., " Handb.," p. 149, t. 11, f. 233. 



Exs.— Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," 452 (partly); Cooke, 

 "Fung. Brit," 482; Phil, "Elv. Brit," 138; Roumg, 

 " Fung. Gal," 2767. 



On trunks and branches of trees. 



Name — caps, flesh, d$og, likeness ; flesh-like. 



Common ! 



4. Ombrophila purpurea. (Fckl.) 



Receptacle as in preceding, but larger and more 

 robust ; asci scarcely stipitate, cylindrical ; sporidia bi- 

 seriate, lanceolate, sometimes curved, multiguttulate, 

 hyaline, 20 X 6/x ; paraphyses filiform, not thickened at 

 the tips. 



Coryne purpurea — Fckl, " Symb. Myco," p. 284. 

 Bulgaria purpurea (Fckl.) — Cooke in " Grevillea," ii. p. 

 164. 



Exs.— Fckl, "F. Rh," No. 1135 ; Cooke, " Fung. Brit," 

 ed. ii. 658. 



Sporidia 20/* ("0007 in.) long, whereas in B. sarcoides 

 they are only half that length. The cups exceed 1 inch 

 in diameter (Cooke). 



The sporidia in the Attingham Park specimen are 

 24 x 7fi. This may be a distinct species. 



Epping (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Attingham Park, Shrews- 

 bury ! 



5. Ombrophila clavus. (A. and S.) 



Crowded or scattered, between fleshy and gelatinous, 

 somewhat firm, pallid or purplish, nearly obconic or 



