ELVELLACEI. 701 



On the under side of a fallen tree. Gopsal. 



Cups with a broad raised mar^n, springing from delicate, radiating, hya- 

 line, interwoven hairs. The evident affinity of this species to P. vinosa, in- 

 duces us to place it in Mollisia rather than Tapesia. — M.J.B. 



2099. Feziza atrovirens. Pers. " Dark-green Peziza." 



Sessile, sub-tremellose, -when young globose, green, when 

 adult hemispherical; disc plane, with a flesh-coloured tinge. — 

 Fr. S.M. \\.p. 141. Pers. Syn.p. 635. Eng. Fl.y. p. 205. Grev. 

 Fl. ed.p.4:2D. Coryne virescens, Tul. C ar p. i\i. p. I'ii^^t. ^Viii.f. 

 12-15. 



On decaying wood. [Mid. Carolina.] 



2100. Feziza cinexea. BatscTi. " Cinereous Peziza." 



Sessile, soft, minute, scutellate, cinereous ; margin quite en- 

 tire, whitish.— i^r. .9.3/. ii.^?. 142. Batsch.f. 137,219. Soiv. t. 

 64.. Kees.f.2Gd. Bull. t. 4:16, f.l. FLDcm.t. Ud0,f.2. Cooke 

 exs. no. 390. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 205. Niptera cinerea, Fckl. Sym. Myc. 

 p. 292. 



On decaying wood, &c. Autumn — Spring. Common. 



[I\lid. Carolina.] 



Crowded, 1-2 lines broad, either equal or lobed, and waved at the margin, 

 Hymenium pale or grey, watery, paler towards the circumference, substance 

 s oft and sometimes almost gelatinous. — Grev. 



Sporidia oblong, rarely slightly curved, simple, 'OOG-'Oll X ■00l5-'0025 

 m.m. — Xyl. 



Sporidia straight or curved, •006--012 X •001--0025 m.m.— ^ar^e. 



2101. Feziza lacustris. Fr. " Swamp Peziza." 



Sessile, becoming plane, orbicular, soft, waxy, plano-convex, 

 dingy blackish ; sporidia colourless, crowded at the apex of the 

 ascus, pellucid, elliptical, rounded at both ends, often slightly 

 curved, sometimes with an indistinct minute nucleus at each ex- 

 tremity. — Fr. S.M. \\.p, 143. Fr.exs.no. 173. Curr. Linn. Trans. 

 Rahh. F.E. no. 231. Niptera lacustris, Fckl. Sym. Myc. p. 2^2. 



On submerged stems oi Alisma plantago. Near Blackheath. 



Sporidia (•000o-"0006 in.) ■012-'015 m.m. in length; paraphyses filiform or 

 subclavate. — F.C 



Fries " Summa Veg. Scan." makes this the type of a new genus, Ni^ptera^ 

 which he places near Ascoholus. 



"When young adnata, plano-convex, ^ line broad, even, smooth, black, 

 then dilated, plane, free beneath, except the central point of adhesion, ex- 

 ternally sooty-black, quite black when dry ; margin at first connivent, then 

 open, inflexedj entire ; disc turgid, soft, when moist dingy, when dry black. 

 ■" — Fries. 



Sporidia oblong, 1-3 septate, •022-'03 X •006--009 m.m— .Vy^. 



