CYPHELLA. SOLENIA 701 



2374. C. Berkeley! Massee. (= Cyphella griseo-pallida (Weinm.) Berk.) 



Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley, the father of English mycology. 

 R. 1-2 mm., reddish grey, globose, then expanding and becoming 

 campanulate, sessile, minutely pilose. Hymenium concolorous, even. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 7 x 5/z. Dead Carex paniculata. Rare. 



2375. C. Goldbachii Weinm. Cda. in Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. in, t. 63, 



as Chaetocypha variabilis Cda. Carl Ludwig Goldbach. 



R. 2-4 mm. high, 2 mm. broad, white, cup-shaped, or campanulate, 

 sessile, pitcher-shaped-concave, lobed, externally villose. Hymenium 

 pallid, or cream colour, even. Spores white, "globose, 7 8/x" Massee, 

 "broadly elliptical, 4 x 2-3 p" Karst. Dead leaves of Aira caespi- 

 tosa and Carex paniculata. Feb. Rare. 



2376. C. lactea Bres. Bres. Fung. Trid. i, t. 67, fig. 2. 



Lactea, milk white. 



R. -5-1 mm. high and wide, snow white, cup-shaped, sessile, tomen- 

 tose on the outside with shining, white, clavate hairs, 5-6 /A in diam. ; 

 margin entire, ciliate. Hymenium becoming cream colour, even. Flesh 

 white, membranaceous, thin. Spores white, ovate-clavate, 9-13 x 

 3-5-5 /A, 3-4-guttulate; basidia 36-45 x 7-10/n, with 2-4 straight 

 sterigmata, 5-6 /x, long. Dead leaves of Aira caespitosa. June. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



2377. C. muscigena (Pers.) Fr. Pers. Myc. Eur. i, t. 7, fig. 6, as 

 Thelephora vulgaris Pers. a. Candida Pers. 



Muscus, moss; genus, birth. 



R. 3-12 mm., shining white, dimidiate, spathulate, becoming plane, 

 sessile, or stipitate, externally minutely tomentose. St. concolorous, fili- 

 form. Hymenium white, slightly wrinkled. Flesh white, membrana- 

 ceous, soft. Spores white, pip-shaped, or broadly obovate and apicu- 

 late at the attenuated base, 9-10 x 6/4, with a large central gutta. 

 Polytrichum, and other large mosses. Sept. March. Not uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



2378. C. catilla W. G. Sm. Stevenson, British Fung, n, p. 284, fig. 89. 



Catillus, a small bowl. 



R. 18mm., grey, expanded, often imbricate; margin crisped, un- 

 dulate. Hymenium grey, veined. Flesh submembranaceous. Moss, 

 and dead leaves. Nov. Rare. 



Solenia (Hoffm.). 



(<rw\r)v, a pipe.) 



Receptacle coriaceous, or membranaceous; tubular, cylindrical, 

 cup-shaped, or pyriform, sessile, seated on a superficial, felt-like, then 

 floccose and fugacious mycelium. Hymenium smooth. Spores white, 



