333 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Exs.— Karst., "Fung. Fenn.," No. 326, 554; Fckl., 

 " F. Rh," No. 326 ; Rav, vi. No. 86 ; Cooke, " Fung. 

 Brit.," 453 ; Phil., " Elv. Brit.," 18. 



On Corylus avellana and Alnus incanus. 



Varying greatly in size from 1J lines to J an inch 

 broad. Csespitose or solitary, erumpent, variously 

 deformed by pressure, coated with a pale rusty meal ; 

 hvmenium cinnamon. 



Name — Furfur, bran ; branny. 



Glapthorn, Northamptonshire (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 

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



3. Encodia Bloxami (nov. sp.). 



Gregarious, often caespitose, shortly stipitate, cyathi- 

 form, coriaceous, blackish brown, minutely verrucose ; 

 hymenium lurid brown ; margin slightly undulating ; 

 flesh dark purple-brown ; asci clavate ; sporiclia 8, elliptic, 

 3 — 4 X 2/jl ; paraphyses filiform, adherent. 



Fusiform, uniseptate, stylospores on slender filaments 

 are abundantly intermixed with the asci and paraphyses, 

 the summits rising a little above the surface of the 

 hymenium. 



Patellaria Bloxami — Berk, in Bloxam's herb, at 

 Kew. 



On dead wood. 



Cups about 1 to 4 lines broad. When dry the plant 

 is black; the purple- brown colour of the interior is onlj 

 visible in a microscopic section. The stylospores appear 

 to arise from the subhy menial tissue, and are by no 

 means an accidental addition, for they are present in all 

 the cups I examined. They are similar bodies to those 

 in Peziza diplocarpa, Currey, and cannot be explained 

 as spores that have germinated. On the surface of the 

 very young cups a few short hairs occur. The cells of 

 the pseudo-parenchyma are about 7 to 5/m across. 



Habitat not given. 



