MOLLISIA. 



193 



Exs.— Cooke's " Fung. Brit.," ed. ii. No. 550. 

 On fronds of Pteris aquilina. September. 



Subgenus IV. — Mollisiella. Phil. 



Sessile, hemispherical, then plane, soft, minutely fur- 

 furaceous or pulverulent, light-coloured (except hyd- 

 nicola) ; sporidia globose, sub-elliptic or filiform. (Plate 

 VI. fig. 35.) 



Arrangement of the Species. 



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2. 



A. Sporidia globose or subglobose 



b. Sporidia sub-elliptic 



c. Sporidia oblong-obtuse 



d. Sporidia oblong-fusiform or fusiform 



e. Sporidia linear 



Key to the Species. 



Hymenium dark green 



Hymenium white 



Hymenium pallid : on pine-leaves 



Hymenium brown 



Hymenium yellowish . . 

 j On wood 

 1 On fern (Pteris) 

 | On herbaceous stems 

 jf Exterior dirty white 

 (Exterior rufous-brown 



J Exterior pale yellow ; hymenium pinkish-yellow 

 \Exterior honey-coloured; hymenium greenish-yellow 



species 38, 39 

 40 

 41 



42-45 

 46 



hydnicola. 



1 



pineti. 



2 



3 



Bullii. 



versicolor. 



effugiens. 



ilicincola. 



lurida. 



stramimtm. 



A. SPORIDIA GLOBOSE OR SUBGLOBOSE. 



38. Mollisia ilicincola. (B. and Br.) 



Crowded or scattered, hemispherical, then expanded ; 

 externally dirty white, furfuraceous ; hymenium concave, 

 pale brown or purple, or rosy cinereous ; margin erect or 

 incurved ; asci clavatb ; sporidia 8, globose, with a large 

 globose gutta, 5jul; asci filiform, enlarged towards the 

 summit. 



Peziza ilicincola — B. and Br., " Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 

 958, t. 16, f. 17; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2064. 



On holly branches, more especially on the surface of 

 the lichen Myriangium, which grows on holly. Winter. 



Name — Ilex, holly, colo, to inhabit. 



