CHLOEOSPLENIUM. 285 



elongated, 8-spored , spores 1 -seriate, hyaline, continuous, 

 2-guttulate, elliptical, apex sometimes most obtuse, 14-1 6 x 

 7-8 fx ; paraphyses slender, hyaline. 



Peziza bulborum, Wakker, Bot. Central., viii. p. 309. 



Botrytis form. Compact brownish-buff tufts, tips of fertile 

 branchlets spinulose, each spine bearing a smooth, hyaline, 

 elliptical, apiculate conidium, 9-10 x 7 /x. 



On bulbs of Hyacinthus, Scilla, Crocus, and Allium. 



Excluded species. 



Sclerotinia trifoliorum. Eriks. On Klofv. 

 Hymenoscypha ciborioides, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 117. 

 There is no evidence of the above-named species having 

 occurred in Britain. 



CHLOEOSPLENIUM. Fries, (figs. 41-42, p. 156.) 



Ascophore stipitate or almost sessile, tough and pliant, at 

 first closed, then expanded, glabrous, verdigris-green or 

 dingy olive, margin usually irregular and wavy; hypo- 

 thecium and excipulum formed of interwoven hyphae ; asci 

 narrowly cylindric-clavate, 8-spored; spores hyaline, con- 

 tinuous or septate, elongated, irregularly 2-seriate ; para- 

 physes present. 



Chlorosplenium, Fries, Summa Veg. Scand., p. 356 ; Phil., 

 Brit. Disc, p. 146 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. p. 315. 



Peziza, of various authors. 



Distinguished by the tough substance and green or olive 

 colour of the ascophore. Some species impart a deep 

 verdigris-green colour to the wood on which they grow. 



Coryne somewhat resembles the present genus, but differs 

 in the texture of the ascophore being more or less 

 gelatinous. 



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Chlorosplenium aeruginosum. De Not., Prop. 

 Rett. Discom., p. 22 ; Rehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc, p. 753 

 figs. 1-5, p. 749 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 147, pi. 5, f. 28; Sacc, 

 Syll., viii. n. 1311. (figs. 41-42, p. 156.) 



