CORYNE. 153 



CORYNE. Tul. (figs. 4-7, p. 156.) 



Ascophore fleshy-gelatinous, sessile or narrowed below 

 into a short, stern-like base, globose at first then becoming 

 turbinate, disc plane or sometimes slightly convex ; glabrous ; 

 asci cylindric-clavate, 8 spored ; spores hyaline, at length 

 2-many-septate ; paraphyses present. 



Coryne, Tulasne, Carp., iii. p. 190; emended by Saccardo 

 in Consp. Gen. Disc., p. 10 ; Sacc., Syll., viii. p. 641. 



Ombrophila, Phil., Brit. Disc, in part. 



Distinguished from Ombrophila, its nearest ally, by the 

 septate spores. 



Coryne urnalis. Sacc., Fung. Yen., ser. iv., n. 69 ; 

 Sacc. Syll., viii. n. 2648. 



Clustered, sessile or contracted into a short stem-like base, 

 when moist subgelatinous, but firm, margin at first incurved, 

 then expanded and wavy, the disc becoming plane, often 

 wrinkled from the base on the outside, 4-1^ cm. across; 

 entirely flesh-red, sometimes with a tinge of purple ; hypo- 

 thecium composed of colourless, densely interwoven hyphae, 

 which pass abruptly into a broad, coloured, cortical zone of 

 parenchyma, cells polygonal, 8-10 //. diameter ; asci narrowly 

 cylindrical with a long, narrow pedicel, tip somewhat 

 truncate, 8-spored; spores obliquely 2-seriate above, nar- 

 rowly elliptic fusoid, hyaline, contents granular, for a long 

 time continuous, then 3-5 septate, 25-30 x 6-7 /j. ; para- 

 physes slender, tips slightly thickened ; hypothecium of 

 thin, densely interwoven hyphae. 



Bulgaria urnalis, Nyl., Obs., p. 73 (in note). 



Ombropliila urnalis, Karsten, Myc. Fenn., i. p. 87. 



Ombrophila purpurea, Fckl., Symb. Myc., p. 284; Phil., 

 Brit. Disc., p. 324. 



Coryne sarcoides, Tul., var. urnalis, Rehm, Kr.-FL, Disc., 

 p. 490. 



On rotten trunks, stumps, &c. 



Specimens examined in Cooke's Fung. Brit., ed. ii. n. 685, 

 and in Johs. Kunze, Fung. Sel., Exs., n. 193. 



Superficially resembling C. sarcoides, but distinguished by 

 the larger spores. 



