224 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



ochraceous, usually becoming blackish with age or when 

 dry; 1-2 mm. across; excipulum composed of interwoven, 

 hyaline, thin hyphae, which pass into a parenchymatous 

 cortex of brownish-olive, polygonal cells 8 12 p diameter; 

 externally and the margin smooth ; asci narrowly cylindric- 

 clavate, apex slightly narrowed, tapering below into^ a long, 

 slender pedicel, 8-spored; spores obliquely 1-seriate, or 

 2-seriate near the apex, hyaline, smooth, 3-5-guttulate, 

 then delicately 3-septate, narrowly elliptical, ends rather 

 acute, 15-18 X 3-3-5 /A; paraphyses cylindrical, tips not 

 thickened, septate, about 2 //, thick. 



Peziza ventosa, Karsten, Mon. Fez., p. 157. 



Mollisia ventosa, Myc. Fenu., i. p. 188 ; Sacc., Syll., viii. 

 n. 1454. 



On damp, rotten wood. 



Specimen examined in Karsten's Fung. Fenn., n. 733. 



Belonidium minutissimum. Phil., Brit. Disc., 

 p. 149 ; Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 2080. 



Ascophores obovate and closed at first, then expanding 

 until saucer-shaped or almost plane, glabrous, whitish, pale 

 amber and with a translucent appearance when dry, up to 

 -H- mm. across ; excipulum minutely parenchymatous, cells 

 narrow and elongated from base to margin; asci large, 

 clavate, apex slightly narrowed, base attenuated into a long, 

 slender pedicel, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 2-seriate, 

 hyaline, straight or slightly curved, cylindric-fusoid, 5-7- 

 septate, 28-30 X 5-6 //. ; paraphyses hyaline, very slender, 

 sometimes forked, tips not thickened. 



Peziza minutissima, Batsch, fig. 143. 



Peziza Jielminthosporii, Blox., ms. in the Hb. Berk. 



On wood and twigs, always nestling among the mycelium 

 of some species of Helminthosporium. Gregarious, sometimes 

 confluent. 



Bloxam's specimen examined. 



Belonidium agaricinum. Mass. 



Ascophores stipitate, gregarious, fleshy, rigid when dry, 

 concave at first, then plane, finally convex, rather wavy, 

 glabrous, dark verdigris-green, 2-4 mm. across ; excipulum 

 composed of densely interwoven hyphae about 4 p thick ; 

 asci elongated, narrowly clavate, attenuated into a long, 



