206 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Mollisia aquosa. Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 172; Sacc., 

 Syll., viii. n. 1382. 



Scattered, sessile, at first globose and closed, then ex- 

 panding until slightly concave or almost plane, glabrous ; 

 disc pallid or pale grey, externally brown with an olive 

 tinge, about ^ mm. across; excipulum parenchymatous, 

 cortical cells brown, irregularly polygonal, 8-10 //, diameter; 

 asci narrowly clavate, 8-spored ; spores hyaline, continuous, 

 smooth, elliptical, ends rather acute, 5-6 x 33*5 //,, 2-seriate, 

 or almost 1-seriate; paraphyses slender, hyaline, tips not 

 thickened. 



Peziza (Mollisia') aquosa, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1326, 

 ser. iv., vol. vii. p. 18, t. xx., h'g. 19. 



Growing on Lasiosphaeria liirsuta, on willow branches. 



Allied to M. cinerea, but the ascophore is smaller, and the 

 spores shorter and broader. 



Type specimen examined. 



Mollisia lignicola. Phil., Grev., xv. p. 113; Brit. 

 Disc., p. 180; Eehm., Krypt.-Flora, Disc., p. 522. 



Gregarious or scattered, sessile, globose and closed at first, 

 then expanding and becoming only very slightly concave, 

 margin somewhat irregular; disc pallid, externally blackisli- 

 brown, rough with minute points due to projecting groui s 

 of cells, and vertically wrinkled, about % mm. across; exci- 

 pulum parenchymatous, cortical cells irregularly polygonal, 

 brown, 8-10 p. diameter, running out into parallel rows ( f 

 .septate, obtuse hyphae at the margin; asci clavate, apex 

 rounded, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 2-seriate, narrowly 

 cylindric-fusiform, straight or slightly curved, hyaline, coi.- 

 tinuous, 6-9 x 2-2-5 /*; paraphyses slender, hyaline, about 

 2 5 fj. thick at the tip. 



Pyrcnopeziza lignicola, Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 1511. 



On old worked wood, decorticated trunks, &c. 



Type specimen examined. 



Mollisia mail. Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 194. 



Gregarious, minute, nearly mm. across, sessile, closed 



and globose, then expanding, margin incurved when drv, 



yellowish -green or sometimes almo.st honey-colour, thin and 



rather watery; excipulum parenchymatous, cells long and 



