MR. F. CURREY ON BRITISH FUNGI. 153 
PEZIZA FIBRILLOSA, n.s. (Ser. Aleuria. Tr. Helvelloidee. Sect. Cochleate.) 
Cup 1 inch broad, nearly sessile, irregular, orange, clothed externally with dingy-white 
downy fibrillæ, which form a rather dense tomentose edging to the cup. Spores quite 
smooth, elliptical, without nuclei, 0١0006 to 0:0007 inch in length. Paraphyses filiform, 
enlarged spherically at the apex. Hanham Wood, near Bristol, October 1861. C. E. 
Broome, Esq. This species is allied to P. aurantia, from which it differs in the woolly 
external covering and smooth sporidia. In some of the asci I noticed a cupulate depres- 
sion at the summit. 
PEZIZA DIPLOCARPA, n.s. (Ser. Lachnea. Tr. Dasyscyphe.) 
Cups rather flat, ith of an inch wide, stipitate, externally of a rich vinous brown, 
clothed (as well as the stem) with dense short hairs. Margin of the cup slightly inflexed 
and surrounded by a ring of hairs of a pale umber, forming a marked contrast in colour 
with the reddish-brown outer hairs. Disc waxy, somewhat glaucous, of a greenish-olive 
colour. Sporidia elliptical, with a nucleus at each extremity, usually slightly narrowed 
at each end, 0١0008 inch long. Paraphyses filiform, terminating in spore-like bodies, the 
latter 2-4-septate, acuminate at the apex, and tapering to the junction with the filament, 
varying much in length, from 0:0008 to 0:0018 inch. 
Plate XXV. fig. 30 represents the plant magnified; fig. 32, the paraphyses and spore- 
like bodies; and fig. 33, the sporidia. 
Found by Mr. Broome at Joyden's Wood, near Dartford, November 8, 1862. Allied 
to P. rufo-olivacea, A. & S. 
Peziza THELEBOLOIDES, A. & S. Consp. Fung. p.321, t. 12; Fries, Syst. Myc. vol. ii. 
p.88. (Ser. Lachnea. Tr. Sarcoscyphe. Sect. Ciliares.) 
This beautiful Peziza, not hitherto recorded as a British species, has been found by 
Mr. Broome and also by Mr. W. Wilson Saunders, in both instances growing upon spent 
hops. | 
Pezza LACUsTRIS, Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. ii. p. 143. (Ser. Phialea. Tr. Mollisia. Sect. Ude.) 
I have found this species (one of the very few really aquatic fungi) in a pond at Kil- 
brooke Manor Farm, near Blackheath, upon dead submerged stems of Alisma plantago. 
The following is the description of the fruit, taken from my specimens :—Sporidia 
colourless, crowded at the apex of the ascus, pellucid, elliptical, rounded at both ends, 
often slightly curved, sometimes (? always) with an indistinct minute nucleus at each 
extremity, 0:0005 to 0:0006 inch in length. Paraphyses filiform or subclavate. 
Fries, in his ‘Summa Vegetabilium Scandinavie,’ makes this plant the type of a new 
genus, which he calls Niptera, and places in the order Bulgariacei, near Ascobolus. 
HELOTIUM LUTEOLUM, n. s. 
Czespitose, pale straw-colour; stem about 4th of an inch long; dise 1 line wide, at first 
hollow, ultimately expanded and convex, the edge covered with very minute parallel 
white hairs, giving a somewhat ribbed or channeled appearance. Sporidia straight or 
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