700 CYPHELLA 



4-4-5/u, long. Hyphae thin walled, 2-8/z cohering. Dead herbaceous 

 stems. Sept. June. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. flavescens Pat. Flavescens, becoming yellow. 



Differs from the type in its yellowish, or brownish colour. Dead 

 herbaceous stem. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2369. C. Pimii Phill. Greenwood Pirn, an Irish mycologist. 

 R. 4 mm. high, 2 mm. broad, white, or very pale yellow, cup-shaped, 



erect, or pendent, pubescent ; margin somewhat incised. St. concolorous, 

 rather slender, crooked, enlarged upwards. Hymenium concolorous, 

 smooth. Spores white, subpyriform, 7-10 x 4/z ; basidia cylindraceo- 

 clavate, with 2-4-sterigmata. Dead herbaceous stems in water. Feb. 

 Rare. 



2370. C. cuticulosa (Dicks.) Berk. Dicks. PL Crypt. Brit. t. 9, fig. 11, 

 as Peziza cuticulosa Dicks. Cuticulosa, having a skin. 



R. 2-4 mm. high, white, diaphanous, at first oblong or digitaliform, 

 then cup-shaped, elongated into a stem, smooth externally. Spores 

 white, oval, 6-8 x 4-5/t. Dead grass stems. Oct. Feb. Rare. 



2371. C. pallida Rabenh. Pallida, pale. 

 R. -5-2 mm., pallid, cup-shaped, orbicular, sessile, sometimes pro- 

 liferous, at length irregularly lobed, plane, tomentose, or slightly 

 hispid. Hymenium pallid ochraceous, at length wrinkled. Old stems 

 of Clematis vitalba. Nov. April. Rare. 



2372. C. vfflosa (Pers.) Karst. Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 389, fig. 1, as 

 Peziza sessilis Sow. Villosa, hairy. 



R. -5-1 mm., white, globose, sessile, gregarious, contracted when 

 dry, externally white villose; hairs subfusiform, subulate, pointed, 

 4-12/x in diam., rough. Hymenium white, concave, even. Flesh white, 

 membranaceous, thin. Spores white, ovoid, narrower at the apex, 

 broadest at the base, 10-15 x 6-10/u,; basidia 40-80 x 7-12/u, with 

 2-4 straight sterigmata. Stems of herbaceous plants and branches. 

 Oct. June. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. stenospora Bourd. & G-alz. crrev6<>, narrow; (nropd, seed. 



Differs from the type in the narrow oblong spores, attenuated a little 

 obliquely at the base, 8-10 x 3-4/z, the smaller basidia 15-18 x 6-8/x, 

 and the narrower hairs 3-4/u, in diam. Dead fronds of Lastraea Filix- 

 mas and Athyrium Filix-foemina. Oct. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2373. C. dochmiospora B. & Br. 80^109, aslant; (nropd, seed. 

 R. -5-1 mm., snow white, cup-shaped, sessile, minutely villose. 



Spores white, oblique, ovate, rather acute, 14-17/u. Stems of her- 

 baceous plants. Oct. Rare. 



