32G OUTLINES OF BRITISH FUNGOLOGY. 



pale yellow ; cup-shaped, erect or pendent, membranaceous, 

 pubescent, margin of cup somewhat incised ; stem rather 

 slender, crooked, enlarged upwards. 



On dead herbaceous stems in water. Dublin. 



♦*** CAULICOL.E AND EpiPHYLL.^. — GruioiiKj Oil stcdks mid 

 leaves. 



16. C. pallida, B. and Br. ; cups -l in., sometimes proli- 

 ferous ; at first orbicular, at length irregularly lobed, plane, 

 tomentose, or slightly hispid, sessile ; hymenium at length 

 wrinkled, pallid ochraceous. 



On old stems of Clematis vitalba. 



17. C. cuticulosa, B. (p. 278). 



18. C. Goldbachii, Weinm. (p. 278). 



19. C. dochmiospora, B. and Br. ; white ; minute ; 

 peziza?form ; hairs not granulated. 



Batheaston. Epping Forest. 



Orders. CLAVAHIEI {p. 27H). 

 Genus 50. SPARASSIS, Fr. 



Fleshy; branched, M'ith flat, leaf-like branches, composed 

 of two plates, fertile on both sides. 



1. S. crispa, Fr. ; 4—12 in., whitish ; very much branched, 

 intricate, recurved at apex, zoneless, serrated. — Sv. ail. Sv. 

 t.l7 ; Kl.Bor. i.4()S- Hogg andJohnst. t. 24; Bail, t.27 ; 

 Wulf. in Jacq. Misc. t. 14,/. 1 ; Kromb. t. 22, f. 2, 3 ; Schceff. 

 t. 163. 



Beside fir trees and stumps. Rare. Edible. 



