1 43 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Far. xanthostigma, Rehm, Krypt.-Flor., Disc., p. 455. 



Differs from the typical form only in being yellow, some- 

 times also with a tinge of red when fresh. 



Peziza xanthostigma, Fries, Obs. Myc., i. p. 1 66. 



Orbilia xanthostigma, Fries, Summa Veg. Scand., p. 357 ; 

 Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 2592. 



Calloria xanthostigma, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 329. 



On dead wood. 



Specimen in Phil., Elv. Brit, n. 130, examined. 



Scarcely worthy of being considered a true variety, transi- 

 tions as to colour being not unknown. Rehm says the sporea 

 are clavate-elliptic. 



Orbilia Leightoni. Sacc., Syll , viii. n. 2600. 



Scattered, minute, sessile, hemispherical, then slightly 

 concave ; margin incurved ; exterior glabrous, very pale 

 yellow; hymeuium same colour; asci clavate ; spores 8, 

 oblong-elliptic, 8 x 3 /* ; paraphyses slenderly filiform. 



Calloria Leightoni, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 329. 



On Polyporus. 



Cups i-1 line broad. The colour varies from white to- 

 very pafe yellow; sometimes diaphanous. The spores ara 

 considerably larger than Peziza epipora, Xyl. (Phil.) 



Unknown to me. 



Orbilia auricolor. Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 2575. (figs. 

 45-47, p. 156.) 



Gregarious or sometimes confluent, sessile, subgelatinous, 

 closed at first and almost globose, then becoming plane with 

 a blunt, glabrous, upraised margin, surrounded by a delicate- 

 web of hyaline, septate, branched hyphae, which spring from 

 the basal cortical cells, clear orange, 5 1-J- mm. across ; dingy 

 orange, but almost unchanged in form when dry; hypothecium 

 and excipulum truly parenchymatous, cells large, cortical 

 cells irregular in form and size, Tip to 20 p across, becoming 

 smaller towards the entire margin ; asci narrowly clavate, 

 8-spored ; spores obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, 

 straight, 5-6 x 1'5 p; paraphyses numerous, cylindrical, 

 2-5 p. thick, slightly flattened and broadened like the head 

 of a nail at the extreme tip. 



Peziza auricolor, Bloxam, MS., in B. fc] Br., notices of 



