CLASSIFICATION 427 



C. cuiiculosa. — Membranaceous, white and diaphanous, at first 

 oblong, then cup-shaped, smooth externally ; the cup gradually 

 elongating into a stem, 1-2 lines high. 



On grass, etc. Gregarious. 



C. capiila (PI. XXXII, fig. 2). — White or tinged primrose-yellow, 

 membranaceous, obliquely bell-shaped, pendulous, almost smooth, 

 margin wavy, stem short, thin, 2-3 lines long. 



On stems of dead herbaceous plants. Crowded or scattered. 

 Cups often more or less irregular in form. 



C. cernua. — Is closely allied to C. capula, differing more especially 

 in being altogether of a clear pale primrose-yellow colour ; stem 

 somewhat elongated. 



On elder bark. Scattered or in small clusters. Sometimes nearly 

 erect. 



C. laccra. — Cup-shaped, membranaceous, pendulous, white or 

 tinged yello\\' ; stem short, soon becoming torn into shreds and 

 covered outside with black fibrils. From 2-3 lines long. 



On dead twigs. 



2. Cup sessile or suhsessile. 



* Spores colourless. 



C. galeata.- — Helmet-shaped, edge entire, almost sessile, whitish, 

 tinged grey when moist ; hymenium becoming brownish with 

 age. 



Snow-white at first, becoming dark cinnamon. Growing on 

 mosses. 



C. muscigcna. — Very variable in shape, cup-shaped, spoon- 

 shaped, etc., shining white, silky, stem short or absent, up to § in. 

 across. 



On living mosses. 



C. villosa. — Sessile, white, hairy, cup-shaped ; hymenium whitish, 

 minute, J-| line across. 



Very minute, resembling a small hairy ball under a lens, when 

 dry and contracted, expanded and cup-shaped when moist, and 

 then resembling a minute Peziza. 



On branches and stems of herbaceous plants. 



C. albo-violascens.- — Resembling C. villosa in size, but differing 

 in having the hymenium tinged purple. 



On wood, bark, twigs, etc. 



C. hloxami.- — Externally white, very thin, downy, edge irregularly 

 lobed ; hymenium pale, then light yellow. 



On furze stems. Scattered and very minute. 



C. goldbachii. — Whitish, thin, cup-shaped or cylindrical, sessile 

 or substipitate, edge deepl}- and irregularly lobed, downy ; hy- 

 menium even, pale. 



Gregarious, 1-2 lines liigli, variable in form, sessile and cup- 



