244 FUXC US-FLORA. 



Helotium Broomei. Mass. 



Scattered, stipitate, cyathiform or plane, flesh-red, glabrous, 

 firm ; margin entire ; stem rather slender, cylindrical, 

 flexuous ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; spores 8, oblong, rounded 

 at the ends or subfusiforin, 15 X 5 p. 



Hymcnoscypha Broomei, Phil., Brit. Disc., pi. 5, fig. 27. 



Phialea Broomei, Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 1090. 



Peziza araucosa, Bull., Kew Herbarium. 



On dead wood. 



Ascophore 1 line broad, 1 line high. 



Unknown to me. The above description is entirely from 

 Phillips, Brit. Disc., p. 129. Unfortunately I cannot find 

 the specimen in the Kew Herbarium on which the species 

 would appear to be founded. 



Helotium lutescens. Fries, Summa Veg. Scand., 

 p. 355 ; Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 905. 



Gregarious or scattered, stipitate, closed at first, then ex- 

 panding until nearly plane ; disc yellow, sometimes with a 

 tinge of brown, externally pale yellow, glabrous, 12 mm. 

 across ; stem 12 mm. long, slender, pale, glabrous, some- 

 times wavy ; hypothecium and excipulum hyaline, consisting 

 of slender interlacing hyphae, passing into a small-celled, 

 parenchyrnatous cortex ; asci clavate, 8-spored ; spores hya- 

 line, smooth, continuous, straight, elliptic-oblong, ends 

 obtuse, 12-16 X 4-5 p., irregularly 2-seriate ; paraphyses 

 slender, hyaline, very slightly thickened at the tip. 



Octospora lutescens, Hedwig, Muse. Frond., ii. tab. 9, 

 fig. 3. 



HymenoscypJia lutescens, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 131. 

 .. On dead branches and wood, often among moss. 



When quite young almost cylindrical, then top-shaped, 

 and gradually expanding until nearly or quite plane. Mar- 

 gin incurved when dry. Stem sometimes elongated, slender, 

 and wavy, especially when springing from the underside of 

 a branch. 



Bloxam's specimen in Herb. Kew, accepted as typical of 

 the present species by Phillips, examined. 



Helotium. uliginosum. Fries, Summa Veg. Scand., 

 p. 355; Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 945; Karsten, Myc. Fenn., i. 

 p. 121. 



