274 FUNG US-FLORA. 



above, sometimes below the middle, almost sessile, base- 

 stout, 8-spored; spores obliquely 2-seriate, smooth, hyaline, 

 narrowly elliptical, ends rather acute, at first multi-guttulate, 

 then very distinctly 3-septate, 24-27 x 4-5; paraphyses 

 absent? 



Peziza (Mollisia) peristomalis, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., 

 n. 1169, ser. iii., vol. xviii. p. 12, pi. v. fig. 32. 



Mollisia peristomalis, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 201, pi. vi. p. 37. 



On dead bark of holly. 



Type specimen examined. 



A most exquisite object under a moderate magnifier, re- 

 sembling some Actinia in miniature (B. & Br.). 



Gregarious, subglobose and closed at first, then becoming 

 elongated and more or less cylindrical, the base often slightly 

 narrowed, but constantly sessile, apex truncate ; disc not de- 

 pressed, surrounded by acute teeth resembling the peristome 

 of a moss. Allied to Belonidium in the 3-septate spores, but 

 the sum of characters point to the present genus. 



CIBOEIA. Fuckel. 



Ascophore supported on a long, slender, often more or less 

 flexuous stem, usually some tint of brown, margin entire ; 

 glabrous ; hypothecium tinged brown, and along with the 

 excipulum, formed of densely interlacing hyphae ; asci nar- 

 rowly cylindrical, elongated, 8-spored ; spores 1-seriate, 

 hyaline, continuous, or septate, elliptical ; paraphyses present. 



Ciboria, Fuckel, Syrnb. Myc., p. 311 ; Sacc., Syll., viii. 

 p. 201 both in part only). 



Hymen oscypha, Phil., Brit. Disc. 



Closely allied to Sclerotinia, and differing mainly in not 

 springing from a sclerotium. Also closely related to Helotium, 

 but separated by the longer stem, brownish hypothecium, 

 and larger size of the entire fungus. 



Ciboria ochroleuca. Mass. 



Scattered or gregarious, stipitate, pliant and leathery 

 when fresh, hard when dry, at first subglobose and closed, 

 then funnel-shaped, finally expanding, glabrous, often 

 wrinkled from base to margin on the outside, especially when 



