270 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Doubtful species. 



Helotium fibuliforme. Berk., Outl., p. 371; Sacc., 

 Syll., viii. n. 1032 ; Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 156. 



Ascophore stipitate, convex, yellow, fleshy, rather firm ; 

 dark brown beneath, as well as the short, thick, subvillose 

 stem ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; spores oblong or fusiform, 

 2-guttulate, 9-12 X 2-4 /A. 



Helvella fibuliformis, Bolton, p. 176, t. 176. 



On sticks of elm in water ; also on ash in like situations. 



Ascophore H-3 lines broad, about 1\ lines high. 



The above is the description given by Phillips of what he 

 considers to be the fungus Bolton had in view. Unknown 

 to me. 



It consists of a little hard pileus, smooth, slippery, and of 

 a yellow-ochre colour on the upper side. It is supported by 

 a round stem, a line in length ; of a solid and firm consist- 

 ence ; and together with the under side of the pileus, is of a 

 dusky black. (Bolton.) 



Helotium subsessile. Schum., Saell., p. 415; Phil., 

 Brit. Disc., p. 158; Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 875. 



Caespitose, very minute, pallid, pileus plane at first then 

 slightly convex, disc pale umber; stem very short, apex 

 dilated, base umber-bay. 



On fallen rotting twigs. Pileus not |- a line broad. Flesh 

 brownish. 



The above is Schumacher's description of the species, 

 which was afterwards figured by Hornernann in Flora 

 Danica, pi. 1855, fig. 3 ; referred to Peziza helotioides, Fr., 

 Syst. Myc., vol. iii. p. 135, and described as follows. 

 " Small, pallid, plano-convex, disc pale umber, stem very 

 short, base umber-bay. 



Berkeley and Broome met with a fungus growing on a 

 dead branch which they referred to P. helotioides, Fr., as 

 follows in Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 573, ser. ii., vol. vii. p. 15 : 

 Our plant agrees very well with that of Schumacher, who 

 has alone described and figured the species. It is however 

 of a dull ochre rather than umber ; the stem is very thick, 

 obconical, and merely a prolongation of the pileus; the 



