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21. Helotium ilicis (nov. sp.). 



Sessile, plane or concave, glabrous, waxy, vitelline ; 

 margin paler, obtuse, repand; asci clavate, pointed at 

 the summit; sporidia fusiform, biguttulate, at length 

 pseudo-uniseptate, 6 — 9 X 2 5fi ; paraphyses filiform. 



Helotium epiphyllum } va,r. ilicina — Phil, "El v. Brit.," 

 No. 134. 



On holly leaves. 



Cup J of a line broad. 



Name — Rex, the holly ; from its habitat. 



Shrewsbury ! Carlisle ! (Dr. Carlyle). 



22. Helotium MarchanticB. Berk. 



Cup shortly stipitate or sessile, rather thick, plane, 

 marginate, flexuose, pale yellowish brown ; stem very 

 short or absent, obconical ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 

 sporidia 8, elliptic or oblong- elliptic, 12 — 15 X 3 — 5/u ; 

 paraphyses filiform, rather stout. 



Helotium Marchantice — Berk., " Outl.," p. 372 ; Cooke, 

 "Handbk.," 2160; Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan.," p. 356; 

 Karst., " My co. Fenn," p. 123. Peziza Marchantice — 

 Berk., " Eng. Flo," v. p. 204 



On fading Marchantia hemispherica. May. 



Cup about J to f of a line broad, " smooth, head quite 

 confluent with the thick stem, so as to be irregularly 

 and obtusely obconic ; flesh white ; hymenium thin " 

 (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 



Name — Marchantia, a genus of Hepaticce ; from its 

 habitat. 



Whittlesea Mere (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 



{d) Sporidia linear. 



(a) On vjood. 



23. Helotium imberbe. (Bull.) 



Cup turbinate, becoming plano-concave, subflexuous, 

 fleshy or waxy, smooth, white ; stem short or nearly 

 obsolete ; asci (?) ; sporidia 8, linear, slightly curved, 10u 

 long. 



