140 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



draceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong or subfusiform, 8 — 

 10 x 2 — 3/x; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza concolor — Phil, in " Grevillea," viii. p. 102 ; 

 Steven., " Myco. Scot," p. 321. 



On hard decorticated wood. 



Cup J to J a line broad ; stem J of a line long. 



Name — Concolor, of the same colour ; without varia- 

 tion of colour. 



Forres, N.B. I (Rev. Dr. Keith). 



b. On herbaceous stems and grass. 



40. Hymenoscypha cyathoidea. (Bull.) 



Cup at first pyriform, then hemispherical, at length 

 expanded, thin, tough, glabrous, white or pallid, margin 

 entire ; stem rather long, fiexuous, attenuated downwards ; 

 asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, narrowly fusiform 

 or linear, 5 — 8 X 1 — 1'd/ul; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza cyathoidea — Bull, " Champ," p. 250, t. 416, f. 3 

 Pers, " Syn. Fung," p. 662 ; " Myco. Eur./' L p. 284 ; Fries 

 " Sys. Myco," ii. p. 124 ; " Eng. Flo," v. p. 202 

 Nees, f. 294. P. 'pedicellata — Sow, t. 369, f. 4 ; Cooke 

 "Handbk," No. 2092; Karst, "Pez. et Ascob," p. 30 

 Nyl, " Pez. Fenn," p. 40 ; Gonn. and Rabh, iii. t. 6, f. 7. 

 Gyathicula vulgaris — De Not, " Disc," p. 27. Helotium 

 cyathoideum — Karst, " Myco. Fenn," p. 136. Phialea 

 cyathoidea — Gill, " Champ," p. 106. 



Exs.— Desm, " Crypt. Fr," ed. i. 1061, ed. ii. 461 ; 

 Berk, exs. 158; Karst, "Fung. Fenn," 836; Fckl., 

 " F. Rh," 1179 ; PhiL, " Elv. Brit," 79, 80 ; Rehm, " Asco," 

 306 ; Roumg, " Fung. Gal," 832 ; Cooke, " Fung. Brit," 

 ed. ii. 377. 



On dead herbaceous stems, thistle, potato, Lychnis, 

 Heracleum, etc. 



Cup J to f of a line broad ; the stem about \ a Kne long. 

 Scattered or gregarious, cyathiform, texture tough, when 

 quite young slightly pruinose externally; the stem 

 slender, variable in length. 



Name — kvciOoc, a little cup, ztSog, a resemblance. 



