Studies in Discomycetes. III. J.S. Bayliss Elliott. 297 
Elliott gathered a very good specimen of this fungus in the 
Woods at Marston Green (Warwicks.). 
Massee in a note appended to the description of this fungus 
considered that the spores which are described by Batsch, 
Currey and others as “with an olive or bluish-green tinge would, 
under normal conditions, be hyaline, the bluish or purplish 
tinge being a stain derived from the colouring matter present 
in the excipulum.” In making this statement he is in error for 
the spores of the specimen [ examined which was perfectly 
fresh and still growing were of a greyish black tint, and con- 
tained two guttulae, thus agreeing with the original description 
of Batsch. 
The septate paraphyses described as colourless were tinged 
at the apex with a yellowish colour in my specimen. They were 
also branched, the apices often swelling out into a clavate head, 
measuring g-I0 x 4-5 and being continuous or septate. The 
rhizoids attaching the apothecium to the substratum of wood 
were a very conspicuous feature of the fungus. 
Orbilia flexuosa Crossland. During the Baslow Foray. 1919, 
I gathered in the Highlow Wood, a Discomycete which, with 
the exception of colour, agrees with the description of this 
species. 
O. flexuosa is described by Crossland as pale reddish amber 
the colour changing to almost black when old and dry; my 
specimens were conspicuously pale beetroot colour when fresh 
with only a slight change to a darker tint for a long while, but 
after two years’ drying many are almost black; also the apothecia 
are very regular in form in contrast to the tortuous lobed forms 
described by Crossland; however this tortuous lobing might be 
due to age. 
Crossland describes the paraphyses ‘“‘as numerous, filiform, 
very slightly or not at all thickened at the apex, which is tinted 
orange’’; the paraphyses in my specimen agree as to form, but 
they are colourless; some are bent at the apex and all have oily 
contents. This fungus appears in Ramsbottom’s list of British 
Discomycetes as a species of doubtful position. To judge from 
the paraphyses my specimen is certainly a Hyalinia. 
Mollisia caesia (Fckl.) Sacc. During the Foray in the Wyre 
Forest, I found a good specimen of this beautiful Discomycete 
growing on a chip of oak. The subiculum on which the crowded 
apothecia were growing was quite well-formed and abundant*. 
This fungus is not common: I have only taken it once before 
in 1916 in Windmill Naps, Tanworth-in-Arden. 
When quite young the apothecia are very hairy all over, but 
* These specimens should be referred to Trichopeziza caesia (Pers.) Boud., 
see Hist. et Class. des Discomycétes d’Europe, 131. C.R. 
