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BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



Genus V. — Belonidium. Mont, and Dur., "Flo. Alger." 



Cup sessile or shortly stipitate, cyathiform or in- 

 f undibuliform, mouth compressed when dry ; cells of the 

 excipulum elongate ; texture firm ; somewhat waxy ; asci 

 3-spored, paraphyses filiform ; sporidia terete, obtuse or 

 acute at the ends, septate, hyaline. (Plate V. fig. 29.) 



Name — fitXovlg, a little needle ; from the shape of the 

 sporidia. 



Arrangement op the Species. 



a. Stipitate or substipitate. 



(a) Sporidia fusiform . . . . . . species 1, 2 



b. Sessile. 



(a) Sporidia elliptic or oblong-elliptic „ 3 



(b) Sporidia fusiform . . . . . . „ 4, 5 



(c) Sporidia filiform . . . . . . „ 6, 7 



Key to the Species. 



Growing on wood 



Growing on herbaceous stems 

 , JHynienium pallid-white, substipitate 

 ' \Hymenium pallid-ochraceous, sessile 

 [Hymenium dingy-black, externally brown. . 



Hymenium pallid or whitish 

 'Hymenium pallid or testaceous 

 (Externally brown; sporidia fusiform, 3-septate 



Externally blackish ; sporidia multiseptate 

 [Externally horn-colour,; sporidia filiform . . 



1 



2 



minutissimum. 



ventosum. 



lacustre. 



3 



cidmicolum. 



pullum. 



excelsius. 



filisporum. 



A. STIPITATE OR SUBSTIPITATE. 



(a) Sporidia fusiform. 

 1. Belonidium culmicolum. (Desm.) 



Cup cyathiform or almost campanulate, pallid or 

 rosy white ; the mouth, when dry, contracted, plicate, 

 nearly closed ; hymenium pallid or testaceous, or rosy ; 

 stem very short, stout, or absent ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, fusiform, straight or curved, 3-septate, 23 — 

 28 X 3 — 4/x ; paraphyses filiform, sometimes enlarged 

 slightly at the apices. (Plate V. fig. 29.) 



Peziza culmicola — Desm., " Ann. Sc. Nat.," 1836, p 

 243. Belonidium vexatum — De Not., " Disc," p. 26 



