710 ELVELLACEl. 



2135. Relotium. conigenum. Fr . " Fir-cone Helotium." 



Waxy or watery consistence, minute, pallid; head nearly 



plane, immarginate ; stem thick, short, at length obliterated; 



sporidia siibcllipsoid. — Berk. Outl.p. 372. Pezizaconigena. Fr. 



S.M. ii. 2^. 139. Eng. Fl. v. j;. 205. Karst. Mon. Fez. p. 152. 



' Fckl. exs. no. 1149. 



On cones of Scotch fir. 



Sporidia ellipsoid, simple, •007-'008 X '0035 m.m. I^yl. Karst. 



2136. Kelotium phascoides. Fr. "Moss Helotium." 



Of a waxy or watery consistence ; minute, pallid, with a brick- 

 red tinge; head turbinate, plane ; stem short, subequal. — Berk. 

 Oytl.j^. 372. Peziza j^hascoides. Fr. S.M. ii. p. 138. Eng. Fl. v. 

 p. 204. 



On mosses. 



2137. Helotiuxn acuuxn. Fr. "Fir-leaf Helotium." 



Minute, stipitate, slender, whitish ; head nearly plane, exter- 

 nally slightly hairy ; sporidia fusoid-elongated or fusoid-oblong. 

 Berk.Outl. p. 372. Peziza acuum. Fr. S.M. ii. p. 96. Berk. Outl. 

 p. 368. Desm. exs. i. no. 1536, ii. no. 1036. Karst. Mon. Fez. p. 

 181. Fckl. exs. no. 1153. 



On dead fir leaves. 



Sporidia oblong or Bubfusiform, •004-"005 X "0015 m.m. — Nyl. 

 Sporidia '004. "006 X 'OOIS m.m.— ^ars^ 



2138. Helotiuxn luteolum. Curr. " Yellow mud 



Helotium." 



Caespitose, pale straw colour ; stem about -J- inch long ; 

 disc 1 line wide, at first hollow, ultimately expanded and con- 

 vex, the edge covered with very minute, parallel white hairs, 

 giving a somewhat ribbed or channeled aj)pearance ; sporidia 

 straight, or slightly curved, colourless ; paraphyses clavato- 

 elongate, acuminate, septate. — Curr. Linn. Trans, xxiv.^. 153, t. 

 25,/^. 11, 12, 18. 



On a gorse stick, the end of which was sunk in the mud in a 

 pool of water. May. Paul's Cray Common. 



Remarkable in its densely csespitose and apparently brancbing babit, and 

 tbe parapbyses are very peculiar. Its aquatic babit is also an unusual cba- 

 racter. Sporidia (•0004--0005 in') •01--012 m.m. long. 



