186 FUNGI OF EAST DORSET. 



Common Copse, and two or three other copses 

 in Edmondsham. 



T. lauro-cerasi Fr. (Lat., of laurel). On dead laurel 

 leaves, Edmondsham Rectory Garden. 



Genus 2. RHYTISMA Fr. (Gr., a patch or wrinkle). 



R. acerinum Fr. On living or recently fallen leaves of 

 maple and sycamore. Dead man's corner, Cran- 

 borne. Belt of woodland N. side of St. Giles' Park. 



Genus 3. BULGARIA Fr. (Lat., bulga, a bag). 



B. polymorpha Wettstein. (Gr., polys, many, morphe, 



shape). Bursting through the bark of dead trunks 

 of trees, especially beech. Witchampton, Mrs. 

 E. W. Baker. On oak logs lying on the ground, 

 Rhymes, Edmondsham, and in a timber-yard. 



Genus 4. CORYNE Tul. (Gr., a club, from the shape 

 of the ascophore). 



C. sareoides Tul. (Gr., flesh-like, fleshy). Forming 



small red -brown patches on cut apple wood, 

 Edmondsham. Cranborne. 



Genus 5. MOLLISIA Fr. (Lat., from mollis, soft). 



M. cinerea Karst. (Lat., ashy, in colour). Grejish to 

 begin with, but turned greenish-black after frost ; 

 on dead wood in woodland adjoining Castle Hill 

 Wood on the S.E. side, Edmondsham. 



Genus 6. HELOTIUM Fr. (Gr., diminutive of helos, a 



wart, excrescence). 

 H. claro-flavum Berk. (Lat., bright yellow). Creech 



Hill Wood, N. side of St. Giles' Park. On decayed 



wood of mistletoe, Edmondsham Rectory Garden. 

 H. virgultorum Karst, var. fructigenum, Rehm. On 



fallen acorns, fircones, &c. ; Castle Hill Wood, 



Edmondsham. 



