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168), P. Agassizii, B. & C. (fig. 169), P. illota, B. & Br. (fig, 

 170), P.fusco sanguinea, Relim. (fig, 179), P. simillima, B, & Br. 

 (fig, 198), to which might be added P. lachnoderma, B., and P. 

 rhaphidophoray B. & Br., figures of which will appear in succeeding 

 plates. 



Peziza (Dasyscypha) bxunneola. Desm. 



Amphigenous, stipitate, villous, small, brown, somewhat scat- 

 tered ; cups subglobose, then plane, marginate ; disc whitish^ 

 growing pallid ; stem cylindrical ; sporidia very minute, sperma- 

 tioid. — Desm. Ann. Sci. Nat. xvii. (1842) p. 96. Desm. exs. i. 

 1156, ii. 656. Phillips exs. No. 28. 



On oak leaves. (W. Phillips.) 



Asci-04 X '005 m.m. (Grev. iii., fig. 184.) 



Feziza (Mollisia) rubella. Pers. 



Gregarious, minute, sessile, between soft and waxy, becoming 

 somewhat plane, smooth, flesh-red ; margin sublaciniate ; sporidia 

 minute, cylindrical. — Pers. Syn, p. 635, B. ^ Br. Ann. N.H., 

 No. 1484. 



On decayed wood with P. vinosa. 



Cups 1-2 lines broad ; sporidia -006 X "002 m.m. 



Peziza (Mollisia) Stevensoni. B. ^ Br. 



Minute, subglobose, sugar-coloured, externally minutely granular; 

 stem very short, incrassated upwards; sporidia minute, subcymbae- 

 form. — B. ^ Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1485. 



On decorticated wood. Glamis. 



Sporidia (-0005 in. long) 0127 m.m. This is accompanied by 

 white creeping threads, which give off erect branches bearing 

 obovate spores *001 long. Probably a conidiiferous state. — 

 B. ^ Br. 



Helotlum melleum. B. d; Br. 



Pallid honey colour ; stem short, cylindrical ; cups ''plane, 

 flexuose ; margin elevated, inflexed ; asci elongated, lanceolate ; 

 sporidia biseriate, fusiform, curved on one side, multinucleate. — 

 B. ^Br., Ann.N.H., No. 1457. 



On rotten wood. 



About a line broad, stem half as much high, sporidia (-0012 in.) 

 •03 m.m. long. Allied to H. luteolum. 



Helotium sublatexitium. B. if Br. 



Pallid, brick-red ; stem short, cylhidrical, delicately whitish- 

 villose, becoming smooth ; cups plane, veined beneath ; margin 

 elevated ; asci linear ; sporidia uniseriate, shortly fusiform, binu- 

 cleate.— 5. ^ Br., Ami. Nat. Hist., No. 1488. 



On stems of herbaceous plants. Glamis. 



Sporidia (-001 X '0002 in.) -025 X -005 m.m, 



Fsilopesiamyrotheciodes. B. ^ Br. 

 Suborbicular ; margin laciniate, tomentose, pallid yellow ; disc 



