322 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 



The horny texture of this plant justifies its removal 

 from the Pezizce. 



Duddington Loch, near Edinburgh (Dr. Greville). 

 Park Loch, near Aberdeen ! (Professor J. W. H. Trail). 



Genus IV. — Ombrophila. Fries, " Summa Veg. Scan.," 



p. 357. 



Sessile or stipitate, glabrous, gelatinous ; hymenium 

 plane or convex, rarely concave ; generally dark-coioured ; 

 epiphytal. (Plate X. fig. 62.) 



Spermogonia occur in some species. 



Name — ojufipoQ, rain, <j>l\og, loving. 



Arrangement of the Species. 



a. Sporidia elliptic . . . . . . . . species 1, 2 



b. Sporidia fusiform or subfusiform . . „ 8-5 

 C. Sporidia cylindrical . . . . . . 



» 



Key to the Species 

 Exterior fibrillose-striate 

 Exterior veined, flesh-red 

 Exterior even . . 

 2 ("Sporidia uniguttulate. . 

 ' \ Sporidia multiguttulate and larger . 



! Yellowish-brown ; paraphyses enlarged at the 

 summits 

 uEruginous-green ; paraphyses filiform, branched . 

 Pallid or purplish ; paraphyses unbranched 



2. 



rudis. 



1 



2 



sarcoides. 

 purpurea. 



brunnea. 



atro-virens. 



clavus. 



A. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC. 



1. Ombrophila rudis. (Berk.) 



Fasciculate, turbinate-stipitate or stipitate, sub- 

 gelatinous ; hymenium plane, here and there depressed, 

 rugose, yellow-brown, somewhat vinous, externally finely 

 fibrilloso-striate ; stem often elongated, lacunose or striate ; 

 asci clavate, base slender; sporidia 8, elliptic, 7 — 10x3 — 

 4//; paraphyses filiform, slender. 



Peziza rudis — Berk, in " Proc. N. H. Soc. Berw.," 

 p. 190; "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 574, t. 6, f. 13; Cooke, 

 « Handbk.," No. 2077. 



