ORBILIA. 149 



British Fungi, n. 1068, in Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. xv. p. 16 

 (1865). 



Calloria auricolor, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 334. 



On dead bark and wood. 



Type specimen examined. 



Distinguished by the ascophore being seated upon a white 

 mycelium. 



Orbilia luteo-rubella. Karsten, Myc. Fenn., p. 101 ; 

 Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 2573; Rehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc., p. 

 455. 



Scattered, sessile, fixed by a central point, closed at first 

 then becoming almost or quite plane, thin, subgelatinous, 

 reddish- or brownish-yellow, when dry the colour is dingy 

 yellowish-red, slightly depressed but the margin not raised 

 nor incurved, | li mm. across ; excipulum parenchymatous, 

 cortical cells polygonal or subcircular, 15-22 //. diameter; 

 asci narrowly clavate, pedicel slender, often crooked, 8-spored ; 

 spores irregularly 2-seriate above, hyaline, continuous, fusi- 

 form, ends acute, straight, 6-10 x 1 *5 /x; paraphyses slender, 

 knobbed at the tip, which is 4-5 ^ across. 



Peziza luteo-rubella, Nylander, Fez. Fenn., p. 55. 



Calloria luteo-rubella, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 333. 



On dead bark, wood ; also on dead Polyporus. 



Specimen in Karsten, Fung. Fenn., n. 727 examined ; also 

 Phillips, Elv. Brit., n. 185. 



Differs from 0. leucostigma, its nearest ally, in the longer, 

 fusiform spores. 



Orbilia inflatula. Karst,, Myc. Fenn., p. 100 ; Sacc., 

 Syll., 11. 2583. (figs. 48-51, p. 156.) 



Cups gregarious, substance thin, translucent, watery, 

 whitish with a tinge of yellowish green, slightly depressed 

 or almost plane, sessile or sometimes produced into a very 

 short stem-like base furnished with white down, 1 1*5 mm. 

 across, when dry the margin is raised and angularly con- 

 tracted, ochraceous or with a reddish tinge ; asci cylindric- 

 iclavate, obtuse, spores 8, irregularly biseriate, filiform, 

 0-10 x "5 p. ; paraphyses absent. 



Peziza inflatula, Karst., Moil. Pez., p. 175. 



Calloria inflatula, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 335. 



