ELVELLACEI. 705 



On dead nettle stems. 



Cups scarcely a line in diameter ; substance firm. 



Sporidia oblong or fusiform oblong, •011--014 X 'OOS-'OOSS m.m.—I^yl. 

 Karst. 



2115. Peziza micifoinetra. B.^-Br. *' Point-like Peziza." 



Very minute, sessile, subturbinate, attached by strong villous 

 hairs, brownish, mouth somewhat contracted, finely striate ; asci 

 clavate ; sporidia filiform. — Ann. N.H. no. lid. 



On dead stems of Juncus. Twycross. 

 Extremely minute, punctiform, horn-brown ; hymenium plane. — B. d: Br. 



2116. Peziza paulula. Rob. " Little rush Peziza." 



Erumpent, scattered or gregarious, sessile, waxy, smooth, ^ 

 subglobose, very minute, externally olive-umber, internally 

 pallid, mouth connivent, white, entire ; asci short, broad, sub- 

 cylindrical ; sporidia oblong, obtuse, hyaline, with two nuclei. — 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. (1851), xYi.p. 324, Boh. Desm. exs. no. 2010, ii. no. 

 1610. Ann. N.H. no. 960. Kl. exs. no. 823. 



On Juncus maritimus. Isle of Wight. 



Sporidia '01 m.m. ("0003 in.) long. 



2117. Peziza dematiicola. B. 3) Br. "Black mould 



Peziza." 



Gregarious, very minute ; cup hemispherical, watery umber, 

 cileated with long hyaline flocci ; disc cinereous ; asci rather 

 short ; sporidia subcymbiform, hyaline. — B. ^- Br. Ann. N.H. 

 1865,710.1070,^. 15,/. 20. 



On dead wood, nestling amongst the flocci of some Helmin- 

 thosporoid Fungus, but whether at all related or not we cannot 

 say. 



This very beautiful, though minute species, has a mixed resemblance to an 

 Excipula, and such Ascoholi as A. ciliatus. — M. J. B. 



2118. Peziza erythrostigma. B.&Br. '• Ked spot Peziza." 



Minute, stipitate, punctiform, pale red ; hymenium at length 

 convex ; asci clavate ; sporidia uniseriate, elliptic, or subglo- 

 bose.—^. ^ Br. Ann. N.H. (1866), t^o. 1168, ^. 4,/. 31. 



Parasitic on Si')hceria 2'>^ceostroma. 



The stem is mostly curved, distinctly cellular ; asci clavate ; spores mi- 

 nute, subglobose ; very minute, but a pretty object under the microscope.— 

 B. cC- Br, 



