276 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS* UNION. 



Var. posea Mass. 



N.E. — Scarboro' (' Nat.' Aug. '81). On dry stems of i^osas/. 



N.W. — ^Masham, on dead Rosa and Ruhis (' Nat.' May '03). 



S.E. — Brantingham, on dead stems oi Rosa (Exc. '01). 



" The present form is scarcely to be considered as a good 

 variety. In the typical form the external cells of the cortex 

 and margin are rounded or papillose, resembling undeveloped 

 hairs ; in the present variety these, hairs are developed to a 

 greater or less extent " (Mass. Brit. Fung, Fl. iv. pp. 298-9). 



19 19. Tapesia aurata Mass. [Arachnopeziza. Fckl. ; 

 Belonidmm. Sacc; Peziza vhabdospevma B. & Br.; T. rhabdos- 

 pernia. Phil.] . 



N.E. — Scarboro', on dead wood. 



1920. Tapesia eriobasis Phil. [Peziza. Berk.] . 

 N.E. — Langton, near Scarboro', on bark. 



1921. Tapesia caesia Fckl. [Peziza oBsia Vers.]. 

 N.W. — Masham, on dead oak-wood (' Nat.' Jan. '02). 



Rokeby, on dead oak wood in plantation near Greta Bridge 

 (F.F. '04). 



(Mass. Brit. Fung. Fl. iv. pp. 300-1, figs. 39-40, p. 156). 



1922. Tapesia sanguinea Fckl. [Pe.ziza. Pers.] . 

 N.E. — Scarboro', on dead pine-wood. 



CHLOROSPLENIUM Fr. 



1923. Chloposplenium aepuginosum De N. [Helvetia. 

 CEd, ; Peziza. Pers. ; Helotiinn. Fr.J. 



Frequent, on fallen branches of oak, ash, hazel, etc., in moist 

 woods. Records numerous for each county division. 



" On fallen oak branches, staining the wood on which it 

 grows, for a considerable depth, of a deep verdigris-green, the 

 wood so stained being employed as ' green oak ' in the manu- 

 facture of Tunbridge ware" (Phil. Brit. Disc. p. 147, pi. v. 

 fig. 28). " Rehm. says that it also occurs on Pimis abies and 

 Alnus ; Saccardo adds birch" (Mass. Brit. Fung. Fl. iv. pp. 

 285-6, figs. 41-42, p. 156). 



SCLEROTINIA Fckl. 



1924. Sclerotinia tuberosa Fckl. [Octospora. Hedw. ; 

 Peziza. Bull. ; PJiialea. Gillet ; Hymemscypha. Phil,] . 



Trans. V.N.U., 1905 (pub. 1905). Bot. Series, Vol. 6. 



