144 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



"being almost globose to linear and elongated ; paraphyses 

 present. 



Orbilia, Fries, Sunima Veg., p. 357 ; Sacc., Syll., viii. p. 

 621. 



Calloria, Phil., Brit. Disc, (in part). 



Superficially closely resembling Calloria, but separated by 

 the continuous spores. 



* Deep red or flesh-colour. 



Orbilia Scotica. Mass., Grev., vol. xxii. p. 99. 



Gregarious, at first subglobose and closed, then expanding 

 and becoming almost plane, with a slight central depression, 

 margin entire, glabrous, thin, almost translucent when moist, 

 irregularly contracted when dry, deep rose-red, sessile and 

 attached by a central point, up to f mm. across ; excipulum 

 parenchymatous, cells irregularly polygonal, 5-7 jx diameter ; 

 hypothecium tinged red ; asci clavate, apex rounded, base 

 slender and usually crooked, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 

 2-seriate above, 1-seriate below, hyaline continuous, elliptic- 

 oblong, ends obtuse, 4x1//.; paraphyses about 1 /x thick, 

 tips subglobose. 



On rotten wood. 



The type specimen is in Herb. Berk., Kew, under the 

 name of Peziza vinosa ( = Calloria vinosa), from which it 

 differs in the very much smaller, differently shaped spores, 

 although superficially the two species closely resemble each 

 other. 



Most nearly allied to Orbilia coccinella, Karst. ; differing 

 in the narrower spores and the much smaller cells of the 

 excipulum. 



Orbilia coccinella. Karst., Myc. Fenn., i. p. 98 ; 

 Rehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc, p. 453 ; Sacc,, Syll., viii. n. 2586. 

 Gregarious or often crowded and confluent, thus becoming 

 irregular ; sessile, fixed by a central point, thin and subge- 

 latinous, shrinking when dry, blood-red or deep orange-red, 

 pellucid and crimson when dry, 1-2 mm. across ; excipulum 

 parenchymatous, cortical cells irregularly polygonal, 15-22 /x. 

 diameter ; asci narrowly clavate, pedicel slender and often 

 crooked, 8-spored; spores hyaline, smooth, continuous, egg- 



