CIBORIA. 275 



dry, reddish brown or yellow-brown, 2 mm. to 1 cm. across, 

 stem 1-3 cm. high, usually straight, rather slender, blackish 

 brown ; hypothecium brown, and like the hyaline excipulum 

 formed of sparsely septate, branched, intricately interwoven 

 hyphae, cortex parenchymatous, cells brown ; asci narrowly 

 cylindric-clavate, 8-spored; spores 1-seriate, or imperfectly 

 2-seriate above, hyaline, smooth, narrowly elliptical, ends 

 rather pointed, straight or slightly curved, at first continuous 

 and with several large oil-globules, then 1-many-septate, 

 1 5-20 x 5-6 fx ; paraphyses slender, slightly thickened and 

 often brownish at the tip. 



Peziza ochroleuca,, Bolton, Hist. Fung. Halifax, p. 105! 

 pi. 105 (1789). 



Peziza firma, Pers., Syn. Fung., p. 658 (1801). 



Hymenoscypha firma, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 123. 



Ciboria firma, Sacc, Syll,, viii. n. 829. 



On decaying oak branches. 



Specimen in Herb. Berk., Kew, examined. 



Bolton's name — quoted by Persooon — is restored, as there is 

 no mistaking his excellent figure and description. 



Ciboria luteovirescens. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 838. 



Gregarious or scattered, stipitate, closed at first then 

 becoming plane or slightly convex, often with a more or less 

 distinct central dimple, thin, pliant, glabrous, margin entire, 

 every part pale, dingy, yellowish green, 1-1 h cm. across ; 

 hypothecium tinged with brown ; cortical cells mostly hexa- 

 gonal, elongated in the direction from base to margin ; stem 

 i-lj cm. long, slender, wavy, glabrous, slightly, narrowed 

 downwards; asci cylindric-clavate, pedicel elongated, nar- 

 rowed, 8-spored; spores obliquely 1-seriate, smooth, hyaline, 

 continuous, elliptical, ends rather blunt, 13-15 x 5-6//.; 

 paraphyses hyaline, septate, slightly thickened towards the 

 tip. 



Peziza luteovirescens, Roberge, in Desin., Crypt. Fl. Fr., exs., 

 ed. i., n. 1541. 



Hymenoscypha luteovirescens, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 121. 



Peziza pallidomrescens, Phil., Grew vi. p. 24. 



On decaying and partly buried leaf-stalks of maple, syca- 

 more, and lime. 



Specimen from Eoberge, now in Herb. Berk., Kew, exa- 



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