HELOTIUM. 269 



Helotium bryophylum. Mass. 



Stipitate, slender, at first concave, then convex, glabrous, 

 yellowish ; stem long, slender, flexuose, slightly pubescent ; 

 asci clavate; spores cylindrical, curved, 10 x 2 //,; para- 

 physes filiform, enlarged upwards, septate. 



Peziza bry&phila, Fries, Syst. Myc, ii. p. 119. 



Peziza pyxi data, Flora Dan., t. 1017, fig. 1. 



Phialea bryophila, Gill., Champ., p. 100. 



RymenoscypJia bryophila, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 125. 



Amongst moss in mountain pastures. Autumn. 



Cup h to 1-J- lines broad, 2J to 5 lines high. Scattered, 

 slender, nearly white, becoming yellowish. (Phil.) 



Unknown to me. The whole of the above copied from 

 Phillips, Brit. Disc, p. 125. 



I. On dung. 



Helotium lacteum. Mass. 



Ascophores scattered, substance thin, almost translucent 

 when moist, obconic and closed at first, then expanding, 

 finally slightly concave, plane, or with the margin drooping, 

 glabrous, whitish or with a very faint yellow tinge, hypo- 

 thecium and excipulum composed of slender, hyaline hyphae 

 about 4 fx thick, these run more or less parallel near the 

 surface, and pass into a parenchymatous cortex of small 

 cells, elongated in the direction from base to margin ; asci 

 cylindric-clavate, pedicel slender, short, 8-spored ; spoies 

 elliptical, smooth, hyaline, 1-seriate or somewhat inclined to 

 be 2-seriate sometimes near the top of the ascus, 9-10 x 

 4 • 5-5 /x ; paraphyses hyaline, slender, very slightly thick- 

 ened at the tips. 



Ascobolus (Ascophanus) lacteus, Cke. & Phil., Grev., vol. v. 

 p. 119. 



Ascopltanus lacteus, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 306. 



On cow dung. 



Type specimen examined, also specimen in Cooke's Fun°\ 

 Brit., ed. ii., n. 660. 



The structure of the excipulum, also the thin substance of 

 the ascophore prevent the present fungus from being retained 

 in the Ascoboleae. 



