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Family VI. 

 ASCOMYCETES or HELVELLACE^. 



Sporidia generally eight together, contained in a case 

 or ascus. 



Order XXV. ELYELLACEI. 

 Substance soft ; hymenium at length exposed. 

 Genera. 



MORCHELLA. Dill. 



GYROMITRA, Fr. 

 HELVELLA, Link. 



4 Brit. sp. 



GEOGLOSSUM, Pers. 



6 Brit . sp. 



VERPA, Schwartz. 



2 Brit. sp. 

 MITRULA, Fr. 



2 Brit. sp. 

 PEZIZA, Link. 



Series 1. Aleuria, Fleshy ; cup always open. 



SPATHULARIA, Pers. 



LEOTIA, Hill. 

 VIBRISSEA, Fr. 



1 Brit. sp. 



2 Brit. sp. 



1 Brit. sp. 



Sub- Gen. Discina. 

 Geopyxis. 



Sub-Gen. Humana. 



Enccelia. 



Series 2. Lachnea, "Waxy ; cups hairy. 



Sarcoscypha. 

 Dasyscyphse. 



Tapesia. 

 Fibrina. 



Series 3. Phialea, Waxy, or membranaceous ; cups 

 smooth. 



Patellea. 



Hymenoscypha. 

 Mollisia. 



HELOTIUM, Fr. 



35 Brit. sp. 



PSILOPEZIA, Berk. 



1 Brit. sp. 



133 Brit. sp. 

 PATELLARIA, Fr. 



7 Brit. sp. 

 SPHINCTRINA, Fr. 



1 Brit. sp. 



