OMBROPHILA. 323 



On shallow gravel and peat. Jane. 



This plant is decidedly subgelatinous, and resembles 

 some states of 0. sarcoides, but has different sporidia. 

 It is described when fresh as yellowish-brown, with 

 vinous tint ; stem often striate below, but externally very 

 minutely fibroso-striate " (B. and Br.). 



Name — Rudis, rude. 



Berwick ! (in Herb. Berk. Kew). 



2. Ombrophila brunnea. Phil. 



Crowded, sessile or substipitate, nearly hemispherical, 

 then expanded, becoming fiexuous, gelatinous, yellowish- 

 brown, glabrous ; hymenium darker than margin ; asci 

 cylindrical ; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, biguttulate, replete 

 with granular protoplasm, 16 — 20x5 — 8/u.; paraphyses 

 filiform, enlarged at the summits, adhering. 



Ombrophila brunnea — Phil, in " Grevillea," viii. 

 p. 103; "Scott. Nat.," i. (new ser.) 87. 



On dead herbaceous stems in damp places. 



Cups about 1J to 5 lines broad. 



Name — Brunneus, deep brown. 



Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 



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B. SPORIDIA FUSIFORM OR SUBFUSIFORM. 



3. Ombrophila sarcoides. (Jacq.) 

 Caespitose, sessile or substipitate, firm, subgelatinous, 

 fleshy red, veined below; hymenium plane, concave or 

 urceolate and repand ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 

 8, oblong or oblong-fusiform, straight or unequal-sided, 

 with a central gutta, 10 — 18 X 4 — 5/ul; paraphyses fili- 

 form, slender, abundant, adherent. 



Spermogonia form, polymorphous, soft, viscid, flesh - 

 red; conidia subglobose or subelliptic; spermatia rod- 

 like, straight or curved. 



Lichen sarcoides — Jacq., "Misc. Austr.," ii. p. 378, t. 

 22. Peziza sarcoides — Pers., " Syn. Fung.," p. 633 ; A. and 

 S, p. 305. Bulgaria sarcoides — Fries, " Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 

 168; "Eng. Flo," v. p. 210; Berk, " Outl," p. 375, t, 18, 

 f. 6; Cooke, "Handbk," No. 2218; "Fungi," p. 198; 



