428 BRITISH FUNGI 



shaped or cylindrical and furnished with a short stem ; edge 

 irregularly torn into segments. 

 On leaves, herbaceous stems, etc. 



C. catilla. — Somewhat membranaceous, expanded, edge crisped 

 and wavy ; hymenium veined, grey. 



Often imbricated, up to f in. broad. AUied to Cyphella 

 galeata. 



On moss, dead leaves, etc. 



C. fulva.- — Reddish cinnamon, sessile, globose, tlien becoming 

 expanded or open, externally tomentose ; hymenium same colour 

 as the outside, even. 



Scattered, or usually crowded in little clusters, about i Hne across, 

 rough outside, with long, brown, aseptate (without septa), thick- 

 walled, often curved hairs. 



On dead bark, etc. 



C. brunnea. — Dirty brown, sessile, cup-shaped, clothed near the 

 margin ^\•ith a grey bloom, margin incurved, lacerated or torn, 

 mouth oblique ; hymenium smooth, discoloured brown, flesh paler, 

 subgelatinous. 



On bark or wood of elder trees. Scattered or crowded, minute 

 and liable to escape attention. 



C. stuppea. — Erumpent, sessile, cup-shaped, coarsely hispid 

 externally, brownish, becoming paler ; hymenium persistently 

 brown. 



Erumpent or bursting through the bark, scattered, sessile on a 

 broad base, rigid ^^■hen dry. About \ line across. 



On brown stems. 



C. dochmiospora. — White, sessile, cup-shaped, minutely downy. 



Minute, snow-white. Distinguished amongst the other minute 

 white species by the large, inequilateral spores. 



On dead stems, etc. 



C. herkeleyi. — Sessile, globose, then expanding and becoming 

 campanulate, minutely pilose, reddish grey externally, as is also 

 the hymenium. 



Scattered, |-i line across, distinct from C. griseo-pallida in being 

 found on leaves, and not on wood and bark. It also differs in the 

 spores. 



On dead leaves of Car ex paniculata. 



C. pallida.- — Cups at first orbicular, at length irregularly lobed, 

 plane, tomentose or slightly hispid, sessile ; hymenium at length 

 wrinkled, pallid ochraceous. 



Superficial, \-t line across, sometimes prohferous or with smaller 

 specimens growing from the h3^menium or margin. Differs from 

 C. albo-violascens in the ochraceous hymenium, and irregular shape. 



On old stems of Clematis vitalha, etc. 



