152 MR. F. CURREY ON BRITISH FUNGI. 
On a stump, standing in water, in à pond in the field adjoining the first turnpike-gate 
out of Lewes, on the Uckfield road, September 19, 1862. Nearly allied to L. vulpinus. 
Plate XXV. fig. 2 represents the fungus of the natural size. 
NIDULARIA PISIFORMIS, Tulasne, Ann. d. Sc. Nat. 3 sér. vol. i. p. 100. 
Granularia pisiformis, Roth, in Usteri’s Ann. der Bot., Band i. S. 6, tab. 1. f. 1. 
Peridium subrotund, slightly flattened, varying in different specimens from jth to 
lih of an inch across, brown or brownish white, woolly, tuberculate when ripe from the 
pressure outwards of the sporangia; indehiscent, opening by irregular fissures; spo- 
rangia enveloped in jelly, subrotund or disc-shaped, their outline forming a broad 
ellipse (almost a circle) with a major axis of about 45th of an inch, shining, of a rich 
dark brown colour, sometimes hollowed inwards on one side, but not umbilicate, and 
showing no trace of any elastic cord, such as exists in Cyathus. Sporidia colourless, 
slightly varying in shape, globose, pear-shaped or elliptical, produced on sterigmata, 
0:0002 to 0°0003 inch across. 
On pine-chips, St. George’s Hill, Weybridge, May and October 1862. 
1 was at first inclined to consider this a new species; but after discussing it with 
Mr. Berkeley, we came to the conclusion that it could not be separated from Nidulgria 
pisiformis, Tul. N. pisiformis is described as gregarious, and is said to have grown on 
clayey ground mixed with wood shavings. Tulasne does not figure N. pisiformis, not 
having seen it, but only adopts Usteri’s account, who describes and figures it in his 
* Annalen der Botanik, vol. i. tab. 1. f. 1, under the name of Granularia pisiformis. 
Usteri's description does not very well accord with his figure, but the latter is so rough 
and imperfect as to be hardly intelligible. All the specimens of the plant above 
described were solitary, and they grew only on fir-chips and fir-leaves, not on the 
ground. When the sporangia and the enveloping jelly are dispersed, a hollow skinny 
cup remains attached to the place of growth. The number of the sterigmata appears to 
vary from one to four. Upon the basidium which is figured I could only make out two. 
The species does not appear to have been noticed since Usteri's publication of it, now 
a great many years ago. : 
Plate XXV. figs. 5 & 6, and fig. 22, represent specimens of, the fungus considerably 
magnified; fig. 4 represents the sporangia detached, and also magnified; fig. 21 repre- 
sents a basidium, with two sterigmata and spores attached, highly magnified. 
HELVELLA GIGAS, Krombholz (Naturgetreue Abbildungen und Beschreibungen der ess- 
baren, schädlichen, und verdüchtigen Schwimme, Heft iii. s. 28. Taf. xx. Bild 1, bis 5). 
- This fine species has occurred once only, in a garden in Blackheath Park. It would 
seem from Krombholz's figures to vary a good deal in colour. My specimen was 
brownish yellow. 
Plate XXV. fig. 25 represents the fruit x 220 diameters. 
