200 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



hyphae, about 4 /x thick, spring from the basal cells of the 

 cortex, and are sometimes sufficiently numerous to form a 

 moi c or less evident, blackish tapesium ; asci narrowly 

 clavate, apex rather pointed, 8-spored, spores irregularl}' 

 2-seriate, hyaline, continuous, narrowly cylindric-fusoid, or 

 broadest near the apex and inclined to become clavate, often 

 slightly curved, 7-10 x 1*5-2 /x; paraphyses hyaline, 

 septate, slender, sometimes forked. 



Peziza palustris, Roberge, Ann. Sci. Nat., 1847, p. 187. 



Mollisia pcdustris, Karst., Myc. Fam., p. 195; Phil., Brit. 

 Disc, p. 189; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 1431. 



Mollisia Curreiana, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 406. 



Mollisia Curreyana, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 1439. 



Patellaria palustris, Currey, Linn. Trans., xxiv. p. 155, 

 tab. 25. 



On dead stems and leaves of species of Juncus. 



Specimen sent by Roberge to Berkeley examined, also 

 specimen in Desm., Cr. Fr., ser. i., n. 1543. 



Currey 's type of Patellaria palustris, made into a new- 

 species — Mollisia Curreiana — by Phillips, proves on examina- 

 tion to be identical wdth Peziza palustris of Roberge. 



Pseudopeziza sphaeroides. Mass. 



Scattered or gregarious, erumpent, sessile, at first globose 

 and closed, then expanded, but the margin remaining erect, 

 J— J mm. across ; disc watery-grey, every part blackish 

 when dry; asci cylindric-clavate, apex slightly narrowed, 

 almost sessile, 8-spored ; spores hyaline, smooth, continuous, 

 cylindrical, ends rather pointed, straight or very slightly 

 curved, irregularly 2-seriate, 10-15 X 1*5; paraphyses 

 hyaline, slender, tips slightly thickened. 



Peziza sphaeroides, Desm., Crypt. France, exs., n. 174. 



Mollisia sphaeroides, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 187. 



Pyrenopeziza sphaeroides, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 1504. 



On dead stems of Lychnis dioica. 



Minute, scattered, generally seated on a cinereous stain 

 on the stem. 



Specimens examined from Desm., Cr. Fr., n. 174; Cooke, 

 Fung. Brit., n. 577, and Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 34. 



Pseudopeziza fcecunda. Mass. 

 Scattered or gregarious, erumpent, sessile, globose at first, 



