344 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



cles of lime ; excipulum composed of densely interwoven, 

 slender hyphae, colourless; disc concave, pale orange; asci 

 small, cylindric-clavate, 8-spored ; spores elliptical, hyaline, 

 smooth, continuous, 3 x 1*52 //., irregularly biseriate; paia- 

 physes slender, about H p thick, slightly longer than the 

 asci, tip very slightly or "not at all thickened, colourless. 



Peziza resinaria, Cke. & Phil., Grevillea, vol. iii. p. 185. 



Lachnella resinaria, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 242. 



On resin and bark of spruce fir. 



Described from specimen in Phillips' Elv. Brit., n. 06. 



The size of the spores, 5 X 2 5 /A, as given by Phillips in 

 Disc. Brit., is certainly too large. I have never found them 

 above 3 p. long. 



Dasyscypha luzulina. Mass. 



Ascophores gregarious or scattered, shortly stipitate, at 

 first turbinate, then hemispherical, at length nearly plane ; 

 externally white, pubescent; di*c pale yellow; margin 

 entire ; asci clavate ; spores 8, fusiform, straight or slightly 

 curved, biseriate, 13 x 3 ft; parapliyses filiform. 



Peziza luzulina, Phil., Grev., iv. p. 121. 



Lachnella luzulina, Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 244. 



On dead Luzula sylvatica, at the base, between the leaves. 

 Winter. 



Unknown to me. I can find no ascophores in the Kew 

 copies of Phil., Elv. Brit., n. 71, said to be this species. 



Dasyscypha diminuta. Sacc., Syll., viii. n. 1870. 



Scattered or crowded, narrowed to a short stem-like base, 

 very minute and thin, globoso-depressed and closed when 

 young, then expanded, up to ^ mm. across; disc varying 

 from yellow to orange, externally whitish and very minutely 

 downy, hairs exceedingly slender, short, those at the margin 

 cylindrical, 25-50 x 22*5 fj.; cortex minutely parenchyma- 

 tous, cells arranged in parallel series ; asci very small, cylin- 

 dric-clavate, 8-spored ; spores hyaline, continuous, straight, 

 filiform, 56 X 1^; 1 -seriate belo w, 2-seriate up wards; para- 

 physes hyaline, cylindrical, very slender. 



Peziza diminuta, Koberge, Ann. Sci. Nat., 1S47, vol. vii. 

 p. 185. 



Lachnella diminuta, Phil., Brit. Disc., j>. 253 ? 



On dead culms of Juncus, 



