BELONIDIUM. 223 



On branches of holly, more especially on Myriangium, that 

 grows on holly bark. 



Type specimen examined. 



Mollisiella hydnicola. Mass. 



Ascophore orbicular, irregular, then plane, dark green : 

 asci cylindrical, 8-spored; spores 1 -seriate, globose or sub- 

 globose, 10 X 7 *5 /x, or 10 jx diameter, smooth; paraphyses 

 slender, branched. 



Peziza (Mollisia) hydnicola, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., 

 n. 1327, p. 18, pi. xx., fig. 20 (1870). 



Mollisia (Mollisiella) hydnicola, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 194. 



Pseudohelotium (Mollisiella) hydnicolum, Sacc, Syll., viii. 

 n. 1269. 



On Hydnum ochraceum. 



Conidia cylindric-oblong, 2 • 5-3 * 5 long. 



The above is all the information that can be derived from 

 the original diagnosis and figure. No specimen exists in 

 Berkeley's herbarium. 



BELONIDIUM. Mont. & Dur. (emended.) (figs. 30-33, 



p. 156.) 



Sessile, base sometimes narrowed, superficial, minute ; 

 excipulum parenchymatous ; glabrous ; asci cylindric-clavate, 

 apex usually narrowed, 8-spored ; spores 2-seriate, elongated, 

 narrowly elliptical or fusiform, smooth, hyaline, _3-many- 

 septate ; paraphyses present. 



Belonidium, Mont. & Dur., Fl. Algiers, t. 28, f. 8 ; Phil., 

 Brit. Disc, p. 148 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. p. 496 (in part). 



The most marked character of the present genus is the 

 3-many -septate spores ; in other respects it is closely allied 

 to Mollisia and Pseudopeziza. 



* On Dicotyledons, 



Belonidium ventosum. Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 151. 

 Gregarious, sessile, subglobose then becoming plane or 

 slightly convex, margin thickish, slightly raised, often 

 more or less wavy ; entirely grey or the hymenium pale 



