HYMENOSCYPHA. 145 



Name — pi^a, a root, (/x'Aoc, loving ; found on roots. 

 Shere, Surrey (Dr. Capron). 



(c) On car ex stems. 



49. Ilymenoscypha eburnea. (Rob.) 



Cup hemispherical, ivory-white, margin denticulate, 

 subpruinose ; stem short, incurved ; asci cylindraceo- 

 clavate ; sporidia 8, narrowly cylindrical, curved, 5 X l/i. 



Peziza eburnea — Rob. in Desm., " Crypt. Fr./' ed. i. 

 No. 2004, ed. ii. No. 1604; Desm., " Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1851, 

 vol. xvi. 323. Helotium ebumeum — Gill., " Champ.," p. 

 160. 



Exs.— Desm., " Crypt. Fr.," I c. 



On Carex Pendula. Autumn and winter. 



Cup 400/x broad ; stem 200/* long ; scattered or gre- 

 garious; glabrous except the margin, which is slightly 

 pruinose. . M. Roberge found it on Holcus and Dactylis. 



Name — Eburneas, made of ivory. 



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



(d) On Fruit 



50. Hymenoscypha cacalia?. (Pers.) 



Cup turbinate or subhemispherical, brownish, gla- 

 brous, firm, mouth subconnivent, paler ; stem rather long, 

 slightly thickened ; asci subcylindrical ; sporidia 8, 

 narrowly cylindrical, somewhat curved, 8 X lit. 



Peziza cacaliw — Pers., " Myco. Eur.," p. 285 ; Fries, 

 " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 122 ; Fckl., " Symb. Myco.," p. 307 ; 

 B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist." No. 569 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," 

 No. 2090. Phialea cacaliaz — Gill., "Champ.," p. 104. 



Exs.— Fckl, " F. Rh," 2283 ; Berk, in Kew Herb. 



On seed-vessels of the common stock, and herbaceous 

 sterns. 



Cup about 500/* broad ; stem about 300/t long, but 

 sometimes nearly absent. 



The dimensions of sporidia given above are from 

 FuckeL 



