Rev. M. J. Berkeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on British Fungi. 445 



Cup at first obovate or subcylindrical, concave and expanded 



when mature_, of a bright-orange colour within, beset externally 



with delicate, erect, white hairs, which are hyaline under the 



microscope, and seated at first on a delicate white subiculum, 



which disappears as the plant advances to maturity and the cups 



become crowded. Asci linear. 



Plate XV. fig. 17. a. hair from outside of cup; h. ascus; c. para- 

 physis ; d. sporidia, '0005 inch long, '00025 wide. 



1066. P. (Sarcoscyphse) pygmcea, Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. ii. 

 p. 79. Cupula concava, demura plana, aurantiaca, extus cum 

 stipite crassiusculo tomentoso, pallida ; sporidiis minoribus fusi- 

 formibus, enucleatis. 



On dead twigs of Ulex, buried in the sandy soil. Ascot, Nov. 

 1863, C. E. Broome. Fries^s plant was found in June, on fir. 



Cup 3-6 lines broad. The stem varies in length according 

 to the depth at which the twig is buried. Sporidia •0005-'0006 

 inch long. Hymenium proliferous, as in Cyphella Curreyi. 



This seems to agree so closely with the plant of Fries, that 

 we do not like to separate it. His species, which he found once 

 only, was possibly in a young state. 



Plate XV. fig. 18. Asci, magnified ; b. sporidia, ditto. 



1067. P. (Dasyscyphse) diplocarpaj Curr. Linn. Tr. vol. xxiv. 

 p. 153, figs. 30-33. 



Joyden's Wood, Dartford, Nov. 8, 1862, C. E. Broome. 

 Remarkable for the solitary stylospores which crown the para- 

 physes. 



1068. P. (Mollisia) auricolor, Blox. MS. Mollis, subgelati- 

 nosa, aurantiaca ; cupula marginata e strato tenui hyalino fila- 

 mentoso oriunda; sporidiis angustis. 



On the under side of a fallen tree. Gopsal, Rev. A. Bloxam. 



Cups with a broad raised margin, springing from delicate 

 radiating hyaline interwoven hairs. 



The evident afiinity of this species to P. vinosa induces us to 

 place it in Mollisia rather than Tapesia. 



1069. P. (Mollisia) hepatica, Batsch, fig. 138. Sessilis, con- 

 cava, vinoso-badia, extus granulata; margine dentibus triangu- 

 laribus cincto ; paraphysibus septatis, articulis inflatis ; sporidiis 

 ellipticis, Isevibus. 



On the ground, beneath rabbits' dung, more rarely on the 

 dung itself or surrounding mosses and twigs. Bowood, Bathford 

 Down, W^iltshire, Jan. 1864, C. E. Broome. (Bab. Fung. Eur. 

 Exs. no. 612.) 



Gregarious ; when young, subglobose and closed, then con- 

 cave and flattened, 1-2 lines broad, of a watery consistence; 

 paraphyses septate, the joints more or less swollen or inflated. 



