204: FUNGUS-FLORA. 



about 2 /x thick, apex slightly thickened, equal to the asci in 

 length, 



Patellar ia discolor, Mont., Syll., p. 190. 



Mollisia discolor, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 175; Sacc, Syll., viii. 

 n. 1386. 



Niptera discolor, Eehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc, p. 552. 



Niptera riccia, Sacc, Myc Yen. Spec, p. 162, t. xvi. 

 figs. 3-6. 



Mollisia riccia, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 1395. 



Mollisia discolor, var. riccia, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 175. 



Specimen sent by Montagne to Berkeley, and now in Kew 

 Herbarium, examined ; also specimen of Niptera riccia from 

 Saccardo. 



On branches of Cornus sanguinea, and on wood. 



Allied to P. benesueda, but readily separated by the 

 structure of the excipulum. The margin is as much lobed 

 in some of the specimens from Montagne, as in Saccardo's 

 -specimen. 



*** On Gymnosperms. 



Pseudopeziza retrusa. Mass. (figs. 43, 44, p. 156). 



Scattered, very minute, not more than ^ mm. across, 

 erumpent, sessile, at first concealed by the epidermis, 

 hemispherical and closed, then almost plane, straw-colour, 

 glabrous, rather fleshy, soft ; excipulum parenchymatous, 

 cortical cells 6-8 /x diameter ; asci clavate, apex rounded, 

 S-spored ; spores irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, continuous, 

 smooth, elliptical, ends obtuse, straight, 16-18 X 5 /x ; 

 paraphyses absent ? 



Peziza retrusa, Phil. & Plow., Grev., iv. p. 122, t. 62, 

 fig. 6. 



Calloria retrusa, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 407. 



Orbilia retrusa, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2597. 



On dead larch leaves. 



Specimen examined in Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 126. 



AVhen dry this is found with difficulty, being contracted 

 and concealed under a kind of lid formed of the ruptured 

 epidermis, but when moist it is sufficiently conspicuous 

 under a pocket-lens. (Phillips.) 



