122 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



The exterior is clothed with fine, adpressed, silky hairs ; 

 not glabrous, as stated by Desmaziere. 



Name — Luttus, yellow, virens, green ; greenish- 

 yellow. 



Near Newport, Salop ! Wrekin, Salop ! 



B. SPORIDIA OBLOXGO-ELLIPTIC OR FUSIFORM. 



(a) On fruit. 



12. Hymenoscypha echinophila. (Ball.) 



Cup infundibuliform, then plane, fleshy, pale cin- 

 namon or subfuliginous, glabrous ; hymenium rusty 

 brown ; stem paler, rather slender, more or less elongated, 

 at first subtomentose, then glabrous ; asci cvlindraceo- 

 clavate; sporiclia 8, oblong or oblong-elliptic, curved, 

 often furnished at the poles with a short appendage, 

 having a globose head, 2 to 4 guttulate, 12 — 22 x 4 — o/n ; 

 paraphyses filiform, slightly enlarged at the summits. 



Peziza echinophila — Bull., " Champ.," ii. p. 235, t. 500, 

 f. 1; Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 118; D. C, "Flo. Fr," 

 ii. p. 82; Pers., "Myco. Eur./' p. 278; B. and Br., "Ann. 

 Nat. Hist.," No. 567 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2085 ; Pat., 

 p. 35, f. 85. Phialea echinophila — Gill., " Champ.," 101, 

 c. i. 



Exs.— Phil, "Elv. Brit.," 32; Rehm, "Asco," 606; 

 Roumg, "Fung. Gal," 648; Cooke, "Fung. Brit," ed. ii. 



367. 



On decaying involucres of chestnut. Autumn. 



Cup about 2^ to 8 lines broad. 



Name — cy/vo^, a hedgehog, (plXog, loving; found on 

 spiny involucres. 



King's Lynn (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Norton Camp, 

 near Craven Arms ! Near Hereford ! 



13. Hymenoscypha subvlaris. (Bull.) 



Cup hypocrateriform, entire, fragile, lateritius or 

 pallid -brown ; hymenium darker ; stem long, slender, 

 ilexuose, same colour ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 



