220 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Saccardo places Peziza miliaris, Wallr. (Flor. Cr., n. 2605), 

 in the genus Pseudohelotium, Fckl., as the outside of the 

 excipulum is described as minutely pruinose, and when 

 M. epithallina was first recorded in Grevillea (vol. iv. p. 121), 

 under the name of Peziza miliaris, by Phillips and Plowright, 

 it was described as " externally minutely pruinose." After- 

 wards the same authors (Grev., vi. p. 24), say, the specimen 

 referred to P. miliaris, Wallr., " turns out to be a distinct 

 thing, and belongs to the section Mollisia. We distinguish 

 it as Peziza (Mollisia) epitltallina, n.s." In the diagnosis given 

 no mention is made of the pruinose exterior, and it certainly 

 does not exist in the specimens I examined. The authors in 

 the first instance determined the fungus to be P. miliaris, 

 Wallr., and consequently reproduced the author's description 

 word for word as far as it went, a highly reprehensible 

 practice, and only justifiable when there is no opportunity of 

 examining specimens. 



****** On dung. 



Mollisia albula. Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 192. 



Ascophore about ^ mm. across, sessile, concave, then 

 plane or slightly convex, soft and rather fleshy ; every part, 

 glabrous, shining, whitish ; excipulum consisting of slender, 

 septate hyphae, arranged parallel and radiating from base 

 to margin ; asci narrowly elavate, spores 8, irregularly 

 biseriate, hyaline, smooth, fusiform or subcylindrical, 6-10 X 2 ; 

 paraphyses filiform, slightly elavate. 



Pezizella albula (Phil.), Sacc., Syll., 11. 1169. 



On rabbit dung. 



Under a two in. power the cups look like grains of sand. 

 (Phil.) 



Authentic specimen from author examined. 



Doubtful species. 



Mollisia jugosa. Phil. & Plow., Grev., xiii. p. 74; 

 Brit. Disc., p. 184. 



Crowded, globose, sessile, vertically rugose, scabrous, 

 black, mouth contracted ; disc cinerous ; asci elavate ; 



