134 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Norfolk ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Near Hereford ! near 

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



B. SPOMDIA BROADLY FUSIFORM OR CLAVATE. 



(a) On wood (one on fruit). 



30. Hymenoscypha aquatica. (Curr.) 



Cup stipitate ; disc minute, very little wider than 

 the apex of the delicate, almost filiform stem, concave 

 or convex ; asci cylindrical or cylindraceo-clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, colourless, elliptic or clavate, biguttulate, 

 13—15 X 5—6u. 



Helotium aquaticum — Curr., "Linn. Trans.," xxiv. 

 p. 154, t. 25, f. 19; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2139. 



On fragment of stick in water. May. 



Cup J- a line broad ; stem about 2 to 2 J lines long ; 

 solitary. The measures of the sporidia given above are 

 derived from Mr. Currey's original specimen. It is to be 

 regretted he made no note of the colour. 



Name — Aquaticus, of the water; from its habitat. 



Paul's Cray Common, Kent! (Mr. F. Currey). 



31. Hymenoscypha virgultorum. ( Vahl.) 



Gregarious, stipitate, tough, glabrous, hymenium 

 yellowish red, at length rufous; cup patellseform or 

 frequently convex ; exterior paler ; stem slender, attenu- 

 ated downwards, subflocculose ; asci cylindraceo-clavate; 

 sporidia 8, fusiform, often slightly curved, biguttulate, 

 becoming 1 to 2 pseudo-septate, 14 — 23 X 3 — 5fi; para- 

 physes filiform. 



Peziza virgultorum — Vahl., "Flo. Dan.," t. 101G, 

 f. 2 ; Nyl, " Pez. Fenn," p. 37 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. 

 p. (as var. /3 of fructigena). Helotium virgultorum — 

 Karst, "Myco. Fenn," p. 109; Cooke, " Handbk./' 2133 

 (exs. part). 



On dead branches of trees. Autumn. 



This nearly resembles fructigena, and is regarded by 

 many high authorities as a variety of that species, but it 



