HELOTIUM. 261 



1 -septate, 6-10 X 2-5 //,; paraphyses hyaline, about 2 /t 

 thick, tips not thickened. 



Helotium epiphyllum, var. ilicis, Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 134. 



On dead holly leaves. 



Specimen in Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 134. 



Becoming clingy uchraceous-orange when dry. 



D. On beech mast. 



Helotium fagineum. Fries, Summa Veg. Scand., 

 p. 356; Phil, Brit. Disc., p. 159; Eehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc., 

 p. 777 ; Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 852. 



Ascophores gregarious, shortly stipitate or sessile, sub- 

 globose and closed at first, then becoming plane or even 

 slightly convex, glabrous, firm, whitish or with a yellow 

 tinge, 1-3 mm. broad; cortex parenchymatous, cells poly- 

 gonal, 610 fj. diameter ; asci narrowly clavate, apex nar- 

 rowed, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 2-seriate above, usually 

 1-seriate below, smooth, hyaline, continuous, straight, often 

 with two minute oil-globules, elliptic-oblong or widest near 

 the apex and narrowly egg-shaped, ends obtuse, 10-12 x 

 4-5 p. ; paraphyses hyaline, slightly thickened upwards, 



Peziza faginea, Pers., Tent. Disp. Meth. Fung., p. 34. 



On fallen beech-mast. 



Specimen in Kehm's Ascom., n. 410, examined. 



Phialea fructigena differs from the present species in the 

 longer, slender stem, and in the longer spores becoming 

 1 -septate at maturity. 



E. On fallen catkins. 



Helotium amenti. Fckl., Symb. Myc., p. 313. 



Ascophore scattered, stipitate, concave, then plane or 

 slightly convex, thin but rather firm ; whitish, becoming 

 dingy with age, glabrous, up to \ mm. across; cortex pa- 

 renchymatous, cells narrow and much elongated in the 

 direction from base to margin ; stem very short, expanding 

 upwards into the ascophore ; asci cylindric-clavate, 8-spored ; 

 spores 2-seriate near the top of the ascus, 1-seriate below, 

 hyaline, smooth, continuous, straight, elongated and nar- 



