146 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Peziza vinosa, Alb. & Schw., Comp. Fung. Nisk., p. 308. 



Calloria vinosa, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 333, pi. x., fig. G3. 



On dead wood, bark, brandies, &c 



Specimen in Kehm's Ascom. n. 17, examined. 



Distinguished by the pale red wine-colour of the ascophore, 

 the very slender, long, fusiform spores, and the small size of 

 the cells of the excipulum and cortex. 



Orbilia rubicola. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2565. 



Gregarious, sessile, applanate, reddish flesh-colour, gla- 

 brous; margin prominent, rather obtuse; asci clavate ; 

 spores 8, fusiform, 9-11 x 1/*; paraphyses slenderly filiform. 



Colloria rubicola, Cke. & Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 331. 



On Bubus caesius. 



Cups J-f of a line broad. This is very similar to Peziza 

 vinosa, but diners in the spores. (Cke. & Phil.) 



No specimen examined. 



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Whitish, yellow, or orange. 



Orbilia flexuosa. Crossland, Grew, v. 22, p. 41. 

 Ascophore 1-2 mm. across, sessile, concave then more or 

 less plane ; margin slightly raised, usually more or less lobed 

 and flexuous, sometimes even, composed of narrowly clavate, 

 parallel, closely septate hyphae ; every part at first pale 

 then reddish amber, glabrous; cells of excipulum small; 

 asci cylindrical, narrowed towards the base; spores 8, 

 uniseriate, elliptic-fusiform, usually bi-guttulate, smooth, 

 hyaline, 8-10 X 4-5 /x; paraphyses numerous, filiform, very 

 slightly or not at all thickened at the apex, which is tinged 



orange. 



Gregarious ; on decaying bark. 



Almost horny when dry; sometimes plane and the margin 

 even; some specimens become almost black when old 

 and dry. 



Orbilia lasia. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2574. 

 Ascophore erumpent, sessile, at first closed and globose, 

 then expanding and becoming saucer-shaped, margin irregu- 

 larly fimbriate, pale, the remainder orange, 1-2 mm. across, 

 fleshy, somewhat gelatinous when moist; excipulum paren- 

 chymatous, cells irregularly polygonal, becoming long and 



