HYMEXOSCYrHA. 133 



Name — SubtUis, small, delicate. 

 Rose Hill, near Shrewsbury ! 



28. Hymenoscypha advenula. Phil. 



Cup stipitate, concave or plane, tough, white or 

 } T ellowish white ; stem equal, slender ; asci cylindraceo- 

 clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, 8 — 9 X 2 5 — 4yz ; 

 paraphyses slenderly filiform, scarce. 



Helotium advenulum — Phil, " Grevillea," vi. p. 24. 



Exs.— Phil., " Elv. Brit," No. 133. 



On fallen decaying leaves of larch. Spring. 



Very minute, scattered, or gregarious. Varying from 

 the preceding so little that I had some misgiving at 

 first whether it should be separated, but the sporidia are 

 nearly double the size. 



Name — Advena, a stranger; a little stranger. 



Trefriw, North Wales S 



(d) On fruit. 

 29. Hymenoscypha strobilina. (Fries.) 



Pyrif orm, firm ; cup concave, pallid-rufescent ; margin 

 tumid, entire ; stem short, black ; asci subcylindrical, 

 slender, slightly enlarged towards the top ; sporidia 8, 

 oblong or fusiform, 8 — 12 X 25/z; paraphyses slenderly 

 filiform. 



Peziza strobilina — Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 125 ; 

 Karst., " Pez. et Ascob.," p. 30 ; Nyl., " Pez. Fenn.," p. 41 ; 

 " Grevillea," ii. p. 186. Ombrophila strobilina — Karst., 

 " Myco. Fenn." p. 92. 



Exs. — Karst., " Fung. Fenn." ; Rabh., " Fung. Eur.," 

 ed. ii. Nos. 222 and 624; Phil., "Elv. Brit.," No. 40; 

 Roumg., "Fung. Gal.," 1254. 



On fir-cones. Autumn and winter. 



Cup 300 to 500/x broad, and the same high ; disc at 

 first urceolate, afterwards more expanded ; the texture 

 is tough, and when dry the plant is rigid and black. 



Name — Strobilis, a pine-cone ; from the habitat. 



Derbyshire ! (Mr. James Renny). North Wootton, 



