MOLLISIA CINERASCENS, REHM. AT BROUGH. 
A New Record for Great Britain. 
By C. Crossianp, F.L.S. 
T the Meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union, held 
at Brough, on May 27th, 1go1, the Mycological party 
succeeded in finding a very interesting peziza not pre- 
viously recorded for Great Britain—Mollisia cinerascens, Rehm. 
(see Rathenhorst’s Krypt. Flo. Discomycetes, No. 5003, 
page 518). 
It was picked up in a plantation near Brantingham. The 
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. Mollisia cinerascens, Rehm (natural size). 
. The same (x 25). 
. Section of ditto (x 40). 
. Marginal hairs of cups (x 400). 
. Ascus containing eight spores, and surrounded 
by paraphyses. 
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specimen was forwarded to Mr. G. Massee, F.L.S., of the 
Royal Herbarium, Kew, who identified it as the above species. 
It is a well marked Mollisia in its spore characters, and was 
first found by Dr. Rehm, in Germany. 
The fungus is very small, resembling mere specks on the 
matrix, and a pocket lens is required even to identify it as a 
discomycete. The host plant appears to be an umbellifer, but 
it is difficult to say what is the precise species. 
We are indebted to Mr. Massee for the accompanying 
sketch. 
