ELVELLACEI. 709 



no. 281. Soiu. t. 347. Fl. Dan. t. 534,/. 2. Karst. exs.no. 151- 



459. Mon. Fez. p. 142. Rav. exs. v. 7io. 40 ? FcJd. exs.no. 1158. 

 Chlorosj)lenium cBvuginosum. Tul. Carp. \i\.p. 187. 



On fallen oak branches. [Mid. & Up. Carolina.] 



Staining the wood on which it grows, for a considerable depth, of a deep 

 verdigris-green ; the wood so stained being employed as " green oak "in the 

 manufacture of Tunbridge ware. The fully developed Helotiarw is much more 

 rare than the green mycelioid state. 



Sporida oblong, •01--<'a4 X '0035--0045 m.-m.—Xyl. 



Sporidia elongated-oblong, slightly curved, '01-014 X '003-'004 m.m. — 

 Karst. 



2132. Helotium serotinuxn. Fr. "Bright Yellow Helotium." 



Bright yellow ; head plano-convex, rather thin ; stem short, 

 firm, thickish. — Berh. Outl. p. 372. Peziza serotina. Fr. S.M. ii. 

 p. 119. Eng. Fl. y.^;.201. Helv. aurea. Bolt. t. 98. FcJd. exs. no. 

 1157. 



On sticks, &c., in watery places. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Cup^ in. broad, sometimes groAving almost in the water itself. 

 Sporidia elongated, curved, hyaline, simple^ 



2133. Helotium virgultorum. Fr, " Beech mast 



Helotium." 



Tongh, smooth, pallid, at length yellowish; ciip patella^form; 

 stem long, thin, flexuous ; sporidia acicular-oblong or oblong, 

 simple, or spuriously uniseptate, or granular. — Peziza fructi- 

 gena. Built. 228. Sow. t. 111. Eng.Fl.Y. p. 201. Karst. Mon. 

 Fez. p. 132. Rahh. exs. ii. no. 510. Desm. exs. no. 1060, ii. rzo. 



460. Fchl. exs. no. 1154. Gonn. 4' Rahh. iii. t. 6,/. 4. 



On acorns, beech mast, &c. Common. 



Cup 1-2 lines broad, shallow from the thickness of the flesh. 

 Sporidia fusiform or oblong, -OU-'OSS X ■0u3o--G04o m,m.-NyU 



var. p. flavescens. Holms, t. 11. 

 On willow. 

 Sporidia "0033-'0041 m.m. long, and about six times as loDg.— G^. ^' R. 



2134. Helotium lutescens. Fr, " Yellowish Helotium." 



Yellowish, small ; cup hypocrateriform, orbicular ; stem short, 

 slender, subcylindrical. — Peziza lutescens. Hedw. M. Fr. ii. t. 9, 

 /.3. Ann.N.H.no. 826. Fl. Dan. 1. 14.^0, f. 1. Fr. S.M. \i. p. 

 120. 



On dead sticks amongst moss. Autunm. [Mid. Carolina.] 



Helotiu3i testaceum. See Ascobolus. 



