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Name — Lignum, wood ; from the habitat. 



Bomere Pool, near Shrewsbury ! near London (Mr. F. 

 Currey). Oakley Park, Cirencester; Braydon Pool, 

 Gloucestershire (Mr. Joshua). 



2. Patellaria Bloxami. Berk. 



Gregarious, sessile, applanate, plane or convex, black, 

 flesh blackish - brown, when old immarginate ; asci 

 cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, elliptic, uniseptate, brown, 

 10 — 15 X 5 — 8/u; paraphyses numerous, filiform, adherent, 

 slightly thickened and brown above. 



Patellaria Bloxami — Berk, in herb. Kew. 



On rotten wood. 



Cups about J to J a line broad. When young it has 

 a very narrow margin. 



Name — After the Rev. Andrew Bloxam, 



Rev. A. Bloxam, without locality ! 



3. Patellaria olivacea. (Batsch.) 



Sessile, applanate, between fleshy and waxy; ex- 

 ternally rugulose, olivaceous ; hymenium becoming black ; 

 margin prominent, tumid, entire, becoming nearly yellow ; 

 asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic or slightly turbinate, 

 polari-guttulate, bluish -green, 9 — 10 X 4 — 5/m ; paraphyses 

 filiform, rather stout, septate, clavate at the summit. 



Peziza olivacea — Batsch, "EL," f. 51; Pers., " Mvco. 

 Eur.," p. 306; Fries, "Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 142; B. and Br., 

 "Ann. Nat. Hist.," No. 1077, t. 15, f. 22; Cooke, 

 "Handbk.," No. 2174. Rhizina nigro-olivacea — Curr., 

 "Linn. Trans.," xxiv. p. 494, t. 51, f. 10-12. 



On rotten willow. 



" It runs over the wood in an irregular manner, like 

 the thallus of a Peltidea. In its young state it is truly 

 Peziza-like, and very beautiful " (B. and Br.). Sporidia 

 7'6 to 10^u long. 



Name — Oliva, an olive ; of an olive-green colour. 



Batheaston ! (C. E. Broome, Esq.). 



