704 PHAEOCYPHELLA 



Phaeocyphella Pat. 



(<flU09, dusky; /cu</>eXA,a, the hollow of the ear.) 

 Receptacle waxy, fleshy, or membranaceous ; cup-shaped, or urceo- 

 late, sessile, pendulous. Hymenium smooth, rugulose, or wrinkled. 

 Spores coloured, elliptical, or subglobose; smooth, punctate, verru- 

 cose, or echinulate; basidia with 2-4-sterigmata. Growing on wood, 

 or on mosses. 



2387. P. ochroleuca (B. & Br.) Eea. (= Cyphella ochroleuca B. & Br.) 



&>Xpo?, pale; A,eu09, white. 



R. 2-3 mm., ochrey white, cup-shaped, sessile, villose above; margin 

 at length split. Hymenium pale ochre, brighter than the receptacle, even. 

 Flesh membranaceous. Spores "very pale ochraceous, elliptical, 6 x 

 4/i," Massee. Dead bramble stems. July Oct. Rare. 



2388. P. fraxinicola (B. & Br.) Rea. (= Cyphella fraxinicola B. & Br.) 



Fraxinus, ash; colo, I inhabit. 



R. -25-'2 mm., snow-white, orbicular, sessile, scattered, or gre- 

 garious, externally shortly villose. Hymenium light yellow, becoming 

 fuscous with the spores, proliferous. Spores "pale olive, elliptical, 

 6 x 4/x" Massee. Ash bark. Dec. Feb. Rare. 



2389. P. fuscospora (Curr. ex Cke.) Rea. (= Cyphella fuscospora Curr. 

 ex Cke.) Fuscus, dark ; a-Tropd, seed. 



R. -25 2 mm., white, tomentose; margin connivent. Hymenium 

 becoming yellow. Spores fuscous, subglobose, punctulate. Bark. Rare. 



2390. P. galeata (Schum.) Bres. (= Cyphella galeata (Schum.) Fr.) 

 Fl. Dan. t. 2027, fig. 1. Galeata, covered with a helmet. 



R. 2-5 mm., whitish, or grey when moist, becoming snow white when 

 dry, then rufescent; cup-shaped, then dimidiate, helmet-shaped, sessile, 

 even; margin quite entire. Hymenium at length rufescent, slightly 

 wrinkled. Flesh whitish, membranaceous, soft. Spores tawny, rough 

 or verrucose, subglobose, 8 10/z; basidia 18-30 x 7-9 p, with 4 curved 

 sterigmata, 5-6 x 2-2-5/n. Hyphae very thin walled, 2-5/i, with 

 clamp connections. Mosses. Nov. Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2391. P. muscicola (Fr.) Rea. (= Cyphella muscicola Fr.) Fl. Dan. 

 t. 2083, fig. 2. Muscus, moss; colo, I inhabit. 



R. 25 mm., whitish, or cinereous, persistently cup-shaped, some- 

 times irregular, nodding, externally slightly fibrilloso-striate; margin 

 slightly downy, repand, torn. Hymenium white, then grey, even, then 

 rugulose. Spores pinkish, or pale brown, subglobose, 8-lOju.. Mosses. 

 Nov. May. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



II. CLAVARIINEAE. 



Receptacle erect, dendroid, coralloid, simple, or branched, never 

 pileate. Hymenium more or less amphigenous. 



CLAVAKIACEAE. 

 Same characters as the suborder. 



