270 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Doubtful species. 



Helotium fibuliforme. Berk., Outl., p. 371 ; Sacc, 

 Syll., viii. n. 1032 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 156. 



Ascophore stipitate, convex, yellow, fleshy, rather firm; 

 dark brown beneath, as well as the short, thick, subvillose 

 stem ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; spores oblong or fusiform, 

 2-guttulate, 9-12 x 2-4 p. 



Helvetia fibuliformis, Bolton, p. 176, t. 176. 



On sticks of elm in water ; also on ash in like situations. 



Ascophore 1J-3 lines broad, about 2-1- lines high. 



The above is the description given by Phillips of what he 

 considers to be the fungus Bolton had in view. Unknown 

 to me. 



It consists of a little hard pileus, smooth, slippery, and of 

 a yellow-ochre colour on the upper side. It is supported by 

 a round stem, a line in length ; of a solid and firm consist- 

 ence ; and together with the under side of the pileus, is of a 

 dusky black. (Bolton.) 



Helotium subsessile. Schum., Saell., p. 415; PhiL, 

 Brit. Disc, p. 158; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 875. 



Caespitose, very minute, pallid, pileus plane at first then 

 slightly convex, disc pale umber; stem very short, apex 

 dilated, base umber-bay. 



On fallen rotting twigs. Pileus not J a line broad. Flesh 

 brownish. 



The above is Schumacher's description of the species, 

 which was afterwards figured by Hornemann in Flora 

 Danica, pi. 1855, fig. 3 ; referred to Peziza Jielotioides, Fr., 

 Syst. Myc, vol. iii. p. 135, and described as follows. 

 " Small, pallid, plano-convex, disc pale umber, stem very 

 short, base umber-bay. 



Berkeley and Broome met with a fungus growing on a 

 dead branch which they referred to P. Jielotioides, Fr., as 

 follows in Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 573, ser. ii., vol. vii. p. 15 : — 

 Our plant agrees very well with that of Schumacher, who 

 has alone described and figured the species. It is however 

 of a dull ochre rather than umber ; the stem is very thick, 

 obconical, and merely a prolongation of the pileus; the 



