276 FUNGUS-FLOE A. 



mined; also, Desm., Cr. Fr., ser. i., n. 1541 (collected by 

 Koberge), and Elv. Brit., n. 122. 



Ciboria ochracea. Mass. 



Scattered, at first top-shaped and closed, then funnel- 

 shaped, finally plane or the often irregular margin more or 

 less drooping, thin and rather tough, 2-4 mm. across, 

 glabrous, every part ochraceous ; stem 4-8 mm. long, J— § mm. 

 thick, thinner towards the base, glabrous; hypothecium and 

 excipulum formed of interwoven, slender hyphae, passing 

 into a small-celled, parenchymatous cortex; asci narrowly 

 cylindric-clavate, apex slightly narrowed, 8-spored ; spores 

 obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, smooth, continuous, very nar- 

 rowly cylindric-fusiform, ends rather acute, often slightly 

 curved, 8-10 x 1*5 /*; paraphyses slender, hyaline, veiy 

 slightly thickened at the tip. 



Helotium tuba, Fr., b. ochracea, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., 

 n. 1486, ser. iv., vol. xv. p. 38 (1875) ; Phil., Brit. Disc, 

 p. 126. 



On a heap of decaying vegetation. 



The present species is a typical Ciboria, and cannot be 

 allowed to stand as the variety of a species, the type of which 

 is itself practically unknown. 



Type specimen examined. 



Ciboria echinophila. Sacc, Fung. Yen., ser. iv., 

 n. 89 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 824. 



Scattered, stipitate, subglobose and closed at first, then 

 funnel-shaped, at length almost or quite plane, rather fleshy, 

 glabrous, pale cinnamon or brownish, 2-5 mm. across ; stem 

 about 1 cm. long, slender, often wavy, pale, minutely 

 downy at first, becoming smooth ; hypothecium tinged 

 brown, and with the hyaline excipulum formed of interlacing 

 hyphae, cortex parenchymatous, cells brown ; asci cylindric- 

 clavate, 8-spored; spores 1-seriate or with a tendency to 

 become 2-sei iate near the tip of the ascus, hyaline, subcylin- 

 drical or sausage-shaped, rather strongly curved, ends obtuse, 

 3-4-guttulate, then more or less completely multiseptate 

 16-21 X 5 fj.; paraphyses slender, tip slightly thickened. 



Peziza echinojjliila, Bull., Champ. Fr., p. 235, tab. 500, 



fig. 1. 



Hymenosryjjlia echinophila, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 122. 



