268 FUXGUS-FLORA. 



Helotium rhodoleucum. Fries, Summa Yeg. Scand., 

 p. 335. 



Scattered, stipitate, almost globose and closed at first, then 

 becoming quite plane, thin and rather soft, glabrous, entirely 

 pale rosy- white, h-lh mm. across; stem 1-2 mm. long, 

 slender, glabrous, composed of parallel, slender, septate 

 hyphae, which expand at the apex and form the cortex of 

 the ascophore; asci cylindric-clavate, apex slightly narrowed, 

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

 smooth, narrowly elliptical, ends slightly pointed, 10-14 X 

 3 • 5-4 jx ; paraphyses hyaline, slender, sometimes forked, 

 tips scarcely or not at all thickened. 



Peziza rhodoleuca, Fries, Obs. Myc., ii. p. 306. 



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



On dead Eqidsitum stems and other fragments of vegetation 

 in damp places. 



When young the plant is closed and subglobose or pear- 

 shaped, soon expanding and becoming plane or slightly 

 convex. Distinguished by the pale, clear rosy - white 

 colour. 



Specimens examined in Karsten's Fung. Fenn., n. 152, and 

 Sydow, Myc, March., n. 1266. 



Helotium phascoides. Fries, Summa Yeg. Scand., 

 p. 355 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 169 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 954. 



Ascophores gregarious, minute, waxy, shortly stipitate, 

 turbinate and closed, then expanding until plane, glabrous, 

 with a brick-red or vinous tinge all over (when dry), \—\ mm. 

 broad and high; hypothecium and excipulum composed of 

 stout, hyaline, interwoven hyphae; asci C3'lindric-clavate, 

 apex rounded, pedicel slender, often crooked, 8-spored ; spores 

 irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, smooth, continuous, narrowly 

 elliptic-oblong, ends somewhat pointed, straight or slight!}' 

 curved, 10-12 x 4-5 fx; paraphyses slender, lh-2 /x thick, 

 apex not thickened. 



Peziza phascoides, Fries, Syst. Myc, ii. p. 138. 



On leaves of species of Phascum. 



Specimen in Herb. Berk., Kew, accepted as t} T pical. 

 Eeadily distinguished by the reddish colour of the ascophore 

 and the peculiar habitat. 



