138 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



hymenium smooth or slightly rugulose ; basidia tetra- 

 sporous. 



Cyphella, Fr., Syst. Myc. ii. p. 201. 



Cup-shaped and sessile or furnished with a more or less 

 elongated stem and obliquely pendulous, usually villose, 

 resembling minute Pezizae, but distinguished by the presence 

 of tetrasporous basidia. The expanded species are known 

 from Corticium by the more membranaceous texture, being- 

 attached by a central point only, and not by the whole of 

 the sterile surface, and by the tendency to turn the hy- 

 menium downward and away from the light. 



A. Stipitate. 



Cyphella Pimii. Phill. 



White or very pale yellow, cup-shaped, erect or pendent, 

 membranaceous, pubescent, margin of cup somewhat incised ; 

 stem rather slender, crooked, enlarged upwards ; spores 

 subpyriform, colourless, 7-10 X 4 /A. 



Cyphella Pimii, Phillips, Grev. xiii. p. 49; Stev., Brit. 

 Fung. ii. 287. 



On dead herbaceous stems in water. Fasciculate ; about 

 2 lines high, cup 1 line wide. 



Cyphella capula. Fr. (figs. 9, 10, p. 94.) 

 White or yellowish, membranaceous, obliquely campanu- 



late, pendulous, smooth, margin waved, stem thin ; spores 



elliptical, colourless, 7 x 5 //.. 



Cyphella capula, Berk., Outl., p. 278 ; Cke., Hdbk., n. 951 ; 



Stev., Brit. Fung. ii. 287. 



On dead herbaceous stems, gregarious or scattered, 2-3 



lines long, white or yellow, cup often irregular, pendulous. 



Cyphella cernua. Mass. 



Thin, obliquely campanulate, glabrous, contracted into an 

 elongated, equal stem, Altogether clear pale primrose yellow ; 

 spores subglobose, with a basal apiculus, colourless, 10 x 

 8-9 p.. 



Peziza cernua, Schum., Fl. Dan., tab. 1970, fig. 3. 



On elder bark. Scattered or in clusters of two or three, 

 about 3 lines high. Fries says that the present species 

 appears to be a variety of Cyphella capula ; but he was not 



