184 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



brown ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, biseriate, 

 fusiform, 2-guttulate, 10— 15 X 2— 3/x; paraphyses fili- 

 form, slender. 



Pyrenopeziza Plantaginis — FckL, "Symb. Myco.," p. 

 295. Peziza Plantaginis—" Grevillea," i. p. 131. Peziza 

 atrata, form foliicola — Desm., "Crypt. Ft.*' No. 1313. 



Exs.— Desm., "Crypt. Fr.," 1313; FckL, " F. Rh.," 

 1594 ; Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," No. 653, ed. ii. No. 386 ; 

 Phil, " Elv. Brit.," 37. 



On dead leaves of Plant ago lanceolata. Autumn. 



Externally like P. atrata, but asci and sporidia 

 larger. 



Name — Plantago, a genus of Plantaginacece. 



King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



19. Mollisia jugosa. Phil, and Plow. 



Crowded, globose, sessile, vertically rugose, scabrous, 

 black, mouth contracted ; hymenium cinereous ; asci 

 clavate; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic or fusiform, 3 to 

 5-guttulate, becoming 3 to 5-pseudo-septate, 14 — -18 X 3 — 

 5/x ; paraphyses numerous, adherent. 



Peziza {Mollisia) jugosa — Phil, and Plow, in " Gre- 

 villea," xiii. p. 74. 



On dead herbaceous stems. 



Cup 200/x broad. This is in external characters like 

 P. atrata. 



Name — Jugosus, ridged. 



King's Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 



(c) Sporidia filiform. 

 20. Mollisia micrometra. (B. and Br.) 



Cup very minute, subturbinate, brownish, mouth 

 somewhat contracted, finely striate, attached by strong 

 villous hairs ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, filiform. 



Peziza micrometra — B. and Br., "Ann. Nat. Hist.," 

 No. 773; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2115. 



On dead stems of Juncus. 



