278 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



smooth, broadly elliptical, 9-11 x 5-6 p ; paraphyses slender, 

 slightly clavate at the tip, hyaline. 



Hymcnoscypha amcntacea, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 120. 



On fallen male catkins of willow and alder. Spring. 



Closely allied to C. caucus, but distinguished by the 

 elongated, slender stem, paler disc, larger cortical cells, and 

 clavate paraphyses. 



Specimens examined in Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 116, and 

 Fuckel's Fung. Ehen., n. 1178.1 



Phillips says the margin of the ascophore is tomentose, 

 the hair-like .cells of the margin being 50 X 18 p,, and 

 continuous. 



Ciboria caucus. Fckl., Symb. Myc., p. 311 ; Kehm, 

 Krypt.-Flora, Disc., p. 756 ; Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 823. 



Scattered, piriform and closed at first, then wine-glass 

 shaped and margin erect or incurved, finally expanding, 

 thin, umber-brown, externally paler at first, then brown, 

 glabrous, 2-8 mm. across; stem 2-10 mm. long, about ^ mm. 

 thick, often wavy ; hypothecium brown, and like the hyaline 

 excipulum, formed of very much interwoven hyphae, cortical 

 cells brown, irregularly polygonal, 810 p, diameter; asci 

 cylindric - clavate, 8 - gpored ; spores obliquely 1 - seriate, 

 hyaline, continuous, smooth, elliptical, sometimes slightly 

 bent, 9-10 X 5-6 //,; paraphyses slender, hyaline, tips not 

 thickened. 



Hymenoscypha caucus, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 120. 



On fallen male cones of poplar. Spring. 



Ciboria pseudotuberosa. Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 820. 

 Gregarious, on fallen, decaying acorns, stipitate, at first 

 clavate or turbinate and closed, then expanding until almost 

 plane, often with a central dimple, thin, pliant, glabrous, 

 entirely brownish, often with an olive tinge |-1 cm. across, 

 minutely wrinkled externally ; hypothecium dark brown, 

 and like the pale epithecium consisting of interwoven hyphao 

 5-7 fj, thick, cortex parenehymatous; stem 12 cm. long, 

 slender, slightly tapering downwards, wavy, smooth; asci 

 cylindrical, pedicel narrowed, slender, 8-spored ; spores 

 obliquely 1 -seriate, smooth, hyaline, continnous,broadly ellip- 

 tical or egg-shaped, ends blunt, 8-10 x 5 6 /JL ; paraphyses 



