698 CYTIDIA. CYPHELLA 



gelatinous, thin. Spores white, boat-shaped, 8-10 x 3-4 /i; basidia 

 30-36 x 4-5/A. Hyphae brown, gelatinous, thick walled, 4-6/A in 

 diam. Twigs, and fallen branches. Oct. March. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2358. C. rutilans (Pers.) Quel. (= Corticium salicinum Fr.) 



Rutilans, being reddish. 



R. 1-10 cm., blood red, transparent, cup-shaped, then expanded, or 

 confluent, adfixed by the centre, white villose on the outside, and 

 delicately zoned. Hymenium red blood colour, or orange, even, naked, 

 zoned. Flesh gelatinous, then horny, thin. Spores "hyaline, or 

 slightly rosy, globose, 8p," Quel. Salix aurita, more rarely on poplar. 

 Aug. Sept. Rare. 



Cyphella Fr. 



(Kv<j>e\\a, the hollow of the ear.) 



Receptacle waxy, membranaceous, or subgelatinous, cup-shaped, 

 or urceolate, stipitate, sessile, or pendulous. Hymenium smooth, 

 rugulose, or veined. Spores white, elliptical, obovate, globose, pruni- 

 form, subpyriform, ovate, clavate or pip-shaped, smooth; basidia 

 clavate, with 2-4-sterigmata. Cystidia rarely present. Growing on 

 wood, bark, herbaceous stems, and mosses; scattered, or gregarious. 



2359. C. griseo-pallida Weinm. Griseus, grey; pallida, pale. 

 R. 2-4 mm., pallid grey, globose, then campanulate, sessile, fioccose 



externally. Hymenium concolorous, rugose. Flesh greyish, soft, thin. 

 Spores "white, oboval, acuminate at the base, 6-7 x 4-4-5 ju,; basidia 

 18-30 x 5-7 /A. Hyphae thin walled, 3-8/A in diam., without clamp 

 connections" Bourd. & Galz. Stumps, twigs, elm, and elder bark, 

 and mosses. Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2360. C. fulva Berk. & Rav. Fulva, tawny. 



R. 2 mm., brown tawny, cup-shaped, mouth defiexed, sessile, ex- 

 ternally tomentose with long, brown, aseptate, thick walled, often 

 curved hairs. Hymenium concolorous, even. Flesh thin, membrana- 

 ceous. Spores white, "elliptical, 16-17 x 8/^t" Massee. Scattered, 

 or in little clusters. Dead bark. Jan. Rare. 



2361. C. alboviolascens (A. & S.) Karst. (= Cyphella Curreyi B. & 

 Br.) A. & S. Consp. Fung. t. 8, fig. 4, as Peziza alboviolascens 

 A. & S. Albus, white ; violascens, becoming violet. 



R. 1-5 mm., white, cup-shaped, globose, sessile, or subsessile, often 

 proliferous, densely white villose, hairs rough. Hymenium pallid, or 

 violaceous, smooth. Flesh whitish, thin, firm. Spores white, broadly 

 elliptical, somewhat inequilateral, 14-15 x lOju,; basidia 60-75 x 6- 

 16/A. Wood, bark, and twigs. Sept. June. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



