MOLLISIA. 185 



Extremely minute, punctiform, horn-brown ; hyme- 

 nium plane (B. and Br., I. &). 



Cup not more than 100/z broad. The sporidia refuse 

 to quit the asci in the specimen examined, hence the 

 measurement cannot be safely given. 



Name — /uiKpog, small, jinrpa, the womb; from the 

 minute interior. 



Twy cross ! (Rev. A. Bloxam). 



21. Mollisia vibumicola. B. and Br. 



Minute, punctiform, subglobose, then hemispherical, 

 cinereous, externally granulated ; margin denticulate, 

 furfuraceous ; hymenium paler ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, 

 filiform, 10 — 12 X lju; paraphyses filiform. 



Peziza viburnicola — B. and Br. in " Ann. Nat. Hist.," 

 No. 1170; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2120. 



Exs.— Cooke, " Fung. Brit," 656, ed. ii. No. 385 ; Phil, 

 "Elv. Brit.," No. 85; Rabh, "Fung. Eur," 1818. 



On either side of dead leaves of Viburnum. 



Cup about 300 to 500/x broad, "externally speckled 

 with little dark tufts of cells, which sometimes give out 

 a few short flexuous hairs " (B. and Br.). The sporidia 

 are linear-oblong, straight, or a little bent. 



Name — Viburnum, name of the shrub on which it 

 grows, colo, to inhabit. 



Shere, Surrey ! (Dr. Capron). 



B. ERUMPENT. 



(a) Sporidia elliptic or oblong. 



22. Mollisia graminis. (Desm.) 



Gregarious or scattered, erumpent, hemispherical, 

 rugulose, umber or cinereous-umber ; hymenium pale 

 umber or pallid-grey ; margin fimbriate, villose- white ; 

 asci clavate or cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong- 

 elliptic, 15 x 2"5/x; paraphyses filiform, stout. 



Peziza graminis — Desm, "Crypt. Fr," ed. i. No. 1066 ; 

 Karst, "Mon. Pez," p. 160 (?). Mollisia graminis — 

 Karst, "Myco. Fenn," p. 195; Gill, "Champ," p. 122. 



