206 FUXGUS-FLORA. 



Mollisia aquosa. Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 172; Sacc, 

 Syll., viii. n. 1382. 



Scattered, sessile, at first globose and closed, then ex- 

 panding until slightly concave or almost plane, glabrous ; 

 disc pallid or pale grey, externally brown with an olivu 

 tinge, about -J- mm. across ; excipulum parenchymatous, 

 cortical cells brown, irregularly polygonal, 8-10 jjl diameter; 

 asci narrowly clavate, 8-spored ; spores hyaline, continuous, 

 smooth, elliptical, ends rather acute, 5-6 X 3-3 ■ 5 /x, 2-seriate, 

 or almost 1-seriate; paraphyses slender, hyaline, tips not 

 thickened. 



Peziza (Mollisia) aquosa, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 132G, 

 ser. iv., vol. vu. p. 18, t. xx., fig. 19. 



Growing on Lasiospliaeria hirsuta, on willow branches. 



Allied to M. cinerea, but the ascophore is smaller, and the 

 sjDores shorter and broader. 



Type specimen examined. 



Mollisia lignicola. Phil., Grev., xv. p. 113; Brit. 

 Disc, p. 180; Behm., Krypt.-Flora, Disc, p. 522. 



Gregarious or scattered, sessile, globose and closed at first, 

 then expanding and becoming only very slightly concave, 

 margin somewhat irregular ; disc pallid, externally blackish - 

 brown, rough with minute points due to jDrojecting groin s 

 of cells, and vertically wrinkled, about f mm. across; exci- 

 pulum parenchymatous, cortical cells irregularly polygonal, 

 brown, 8-10 fx diameter, running out into parallel rows ( f 

 septate, obtuse hyphae at the margin; asci clavate, apex 

 rounded, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 2-seriate, narrowly 

 cylindric-fusiform, straight or slightly curved, hyaline, con- 

 tinuous, 6-9 x 2-2*5 /x; paraphyses slender, hyaline, about 

 2 • 5 fx thick at the tip. 



Pyrenopeziza lignicola, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 1511. 



On old worked wood, decorticated trunks, &c. 



Type specimen examined. 



Mollisia mali. Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 194. 



Gregarious, minute, nearly ^ mm. across, sessile, closed 



and globose, then expanding, margin incurved when dry, 



yellowish-green or sometimes almost honey-colour, thin and 



rather watery; excipulum parenchymatous, cells long and 



