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On or with Sphceria hirsuta on willow. Jan. 



Resembling P. cinerea, but smoother and more concave when 

 young, with totally different fruit. Cup '024 in. diameter, growing 

 on Sphceria hirsuta and its mycelium, accompanied by a brown 

 mould, consisting of erect, simple, articulated threads, surmounted 

 by a single oblong, uniseptate spore -0005 in. long ; asci (*002 in.) 

 •05 m.m. long ; sporidia (-0002--00025 X -0001--00015 in) -005- 

 •006 X •0025- , 0035 m.m., bright orange when treated with iodine. 

 Peziza (Mollisia) hydnicola. B. cf Br. " Green Parasitic Peziza." 



Cups orbicular, then irregular, plane, dark green ; asci cylin- 

 drical ; sporidia subglobose, uniseriate ; paraphyses branched. 

 Berk. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1327, t. xx./. 20. 



On Hydnum ochraceum. 



Sporidia (-000-4 X -0003 in.) -01 X '0075 m.m. Conidia (-0001 

 — -00015 in.), -0025 X '0035 m.m. long. 



Peziza (IVIollisia) flaveola. Cooke. " Yellow Fern Peziza." 



Sessile, minute, bright yellow, submembranaceous ; soft, soon 

 becoming discoid, smooth, even. Asci cylindrical. 



On fronds of Pteris aquilina. Sept. King's Lynn. (C. B. 

 Plowright.) 



A very pretty little species, but apparently very scarce, and the 

 specimen found was not sufficiently matured for a perfect description. 

 Peziza (Mollisia) Typhae. Cooke. ''Bulrush Peziza." 



Gregarious or scattered, minute, erumpent, sessile, black, soft 

 or waxy, soon plane, laterally compressed when dry ; disc fuligi- 

 nous, black when dry, minutely papillate, even ; asci cylindrical, 

 sporidia fusiform, hyaline simple. Cooke, Exs., No. 570. 



On leaves of Typha. King's* Lynn. (C. B. Plowright.) Oct. 



Sporidia (-0004--0005 X '0001 in.), -012--014 X -0025--003m.m., 

 twice as long as in Peziza atrata, to which this plant has great 

 external resemblance. 



Peziza (IVIollisia) Plantaginis. Fckl. '' Plantain Leaf Peziza." 



Cups seated on a pallid spot, sessile, gregarious, minute, puncti- 

 fomi, at first closed, globose, at length open, externally clad with a 

 blackish meal ; margine involute, disc concave, pallid-brown; asci 

 elliptic-oblong, sporidia biseriate, elongated-lanceolate, straight. 

 Fckl. Sym. Myc, 29-4. Peziza atrata forma foliicola, Desm. Exs. 



On leaves of Plantago lanceolata. King's Lynn. (C. B. Plow- 

 right.) 



Sporidia (-0005 X '00015 in.), -016 X '004 m.m. 

 Peziza (Mollisia) incaxnata. Cooke. " Posy fir-leaf Peziza." 



Scattered, minute, roseate, sessile, cups soon expanded, nearly 

 plane, externally paler ; asci cylindrical, sporidia linear, obtuse, 

 hyaline. 



On pine leaves. Scotland. (A. Jerdon.) 



Sporidia (-0004 x 00005 in.), -01 x 0015 m.m. 



Peziza (Patellea) axtemisiae. Lasch. " Mugwort Peziza." 



Erumpent, thin, almost stipitate ; cups at first top-shaped, then 



