BELON1DIUM. 229 



especially wlien dry, but distinct in the narrow asci, and the 

 longer and narrower, pointed spores. 



Belonidium excelsius. Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 150. 



Ascophore, sessile, closed at first, then expanding, almost 

 plane or slightly concave, thin, disc whitish or pallid, ex- 

 ternally pale grey or pallid, smooth, concave when dry; 

 about i-j mm. across, gregarious ; cortex parenchymatous, 

 cells polygonal or almost circular, 1012 p. across, becoming 

 elongated and parallel at the margin ; asci narrowly 

 cylindric-clavate, apex narrowed, produced at the base into 

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

 narrowly cylindric-fusiforin, straight or slightly curved, multi- 

 guttulate, then 3 septate, finally 5-many-septate, hyaline, 

 smooth, 55-65 x 4-5 p.; paraphyses about 2 //, thick, tip 

 very slightly thickened, sometimes branched. 



Peziza excelsior, Karst., JVton. Fez., p. 165. 



Mollisia excelsior, Karst., Myc. Fenn., p. 199; Sacc., Syll., 

 1459. 



On dead culms of Arundo, &c. 



Specimen in Karstens' Fung. Fenn., n. 644, examined. 



*** On Gymnosperms. 



Belonidium Jerdoni. Mass. 



Scattered or gregarious, sessile, turbinate then expanded, 

 disc pale rufous or dingy honey-colour, externally brownish, 

 the erect, irregular margin whitish, thin, about \ mm. 

 across; hypothecium delicately parenchymatous, basal cells 

 polygonal, becoming long and narrow upwards, and ending 

 at the margin in thin, slender hyphae of irregular lengths ; 

 asci clavate, apex narrowed, pedicel slender, often crooked, 

 8-spored ; spores arranged in an irregular fascicle, narrowly 

 linear, apex slightly thickened, gnttulate then 3-septate, 

 24-28 X 2 /x, tinged greenish in the mass, slightly bent ; 

 paraphyses septate, slender, hyaline. 



Mollisia lurida, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 197. 



Peziza Jerdoni, Cke. & Phil., MS. in Herb. Kew. 



Phillips considered the present species to be the same as 

 Peziza lurida, Pers., Syn. Fung., p. 666, because there is a 

 specimen at Kew called Peziza lurida by Fries; but this 



