244 FUNG US-FLORA. 



Helotium Broomei. Mass. 



Scattered, stipitate, cyathiform or plane, flesh-red, glabrous, 

 firm ; margin entire ; stem rather slender, cylindrical, 

 flexuous ; asci cylindraceo-clavate; spores 8, oblong, rounded 

 at the ends or subfusiform, 15 X 5 ft. 



Hymenoscypha Broomei, Phil., Brit. Disc, pi. 5, fig. 27. 



Pltialea Broomei, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 1090. 



Peziza arancosa, Bull., Kew Herbarium. 



On dead wood. 



Ascophore 1 line broad, 1 line high. 



Unknown to me. The above description is entirely from 

 Phillips, Brit. Disc, p. 129. Unfortunately I cannot find 

 the specimen in the Kew Herbarium on which the species 

 would appear to be founded. 



Helotium lutescens. Fries, Summa Veg. Scand., 

 p. 355 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 905. 



Gregarious or scattered, stipitate, closed at first, then ex- 

 panding until nearly plane ; disc yellow, sometimes with a 

 tinge of brown, externally pale yellow, glabrous, 1-2 mm. 

 across ; stem 1-2 mm. long, slender, pale, glabrous, some- 

 times wavy ; hypothecium and excipnlum hyaline, consisting 

 of slender interlacing byphae, passing into a small-celled, 

 parenchymatous cortex ; asci clavate, 8-spored ; spores hya- 

 line, smooth, continuous, straight, elliptic-oblong, ends 

 obtuse, 12-16 X 4-5 fi, irregularly 2-seriate ; paraphyses 

 slender, hyaline, very slightly thickened at the tip. 



Octospora lutescens, Hedwig, Muse. Frond., ii. tab. 9, 

 fig. 3. 



Hymenoscypha lutescens, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 131. 

 , On dead branches and wood, often among moss. 



When quite young almost cylindrical, then top-shaped, 

 and gradually expanding until nearly or quite plane. Mar- 

 gin incurved when dry. Stem sometimes elongated, slender, 

 and wavy, especially when springing from the underside of 

 a branch. 



Bloxam's specimen in Herb. Kew, accepted as typical of 

 the present species by Phillips, examined. 



Helotium uliginosum. Fries, Summa Veg. Scand., 

 p. 355; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 945; Karsten, Myc Fenn., i. 

 p. 121. 



