MULLISIA. li>7 



E. SPORIDIA LINEAR. 



46. Mollisia Iv/rida. (Pers.) 



Crowded or scattered, turbinate, then expanded, 

 rufous-brown, whitish towards the margin, tibroso-striate ; 

 hymenium concave, pale rufous ; margin erect ; asci 

 olavate ; sporidia 8, narrowly linear, curved, multi- 

 guttulate, 20 — 25 X \jjl ; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza luricla — Pers., "Syn. Fung.," p. 6GG. 



On dead leaves of Pinus sylvestris. 



Our plant agrees perfectly with a specimen in herb. 

 Fries, and is abundantly distinct from Peziza pineti 

 (Batsch). 



Name — Luriclus, lurid ; a dirty brown colour. 



Mossburnford ! (Mr. Jerdon in Kew Herbarium). 



Subgenus V. — Hysteropeziza. Rabh. 



Cups scattered, immersed ; when moist erumpent, 

 compressed, blackish. 



Name — From Hysterium and Peziza, two genera of 

 fungi. 



One British species. 



47. Mollisia erumpens. (Grev.) 



Scattered, minute, concave, waxy, soft, glabrous, 

 erumpent, sessile, cinereous, when dry concealed beneath 

 the bark ; asci clavate, slender ; sporidia 8, cylindrical, 

 rounded at the ends, sometimes slightly bent, 7xl'5/x; 

 paraphyses filiform. 



Peziza erumpens — Grev., " Crypt. Flo.," t. 99 ; " Eng. 

 Flo.," v. p. 206 ; Berk., " Outl.," p. 371 ; Gonn. and Rabh., 

 iii. t. 5, f. 6; Cooke, "Handbk.," No. 2111. Mollisia 

 erumpens — Gill., " Champ.," p. 123. 



Exs. — Desm., " Crypt. Fr.," ed. ii. No. 1345 ; Cooke, 

 "Fung. Brit.," 566, ed. ii. 384; Phil., "Elv. Brit.," 35; 

 Rabh., "Fung. Eur.," 1811 ; Rehm, "Asco.," 354. 



On dead petioles of sycamore. Autumn. 



Resembling to the naked eye an Hysterium when 



