CYPHELLA. 141 



Cyphella stuppea. B. & Br. 



Erumpent, sessile, cup-shaped, externally coarsely hispid, 

 brownish, hecoming paler ; hymeniuni persistently brown. 



Cyphella stuppea, B. and Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1698; 

 Stev., Brit. Fung. 285. 



On broom. Erumpent, scattered, sessile on a broad base, 

 rigid when dry ; about J line across. I have not succeeded 

 in finding spores in the type specimen. Not a good Cyphella. 



Cyphella albo-violascens. Karst. 



Cup-shaped, sessile or nearly so, snow-white, densely 

 villose ; hymenium even, pallid with a tinge of violet ; 

 spores elliptical, 12-16 x 9-10 /j,, sometimes inequilateral, 

 colourless. 



Cyphella albo-violascens, Karst., Fung. Fenn. exs., n. 715. 



Cyphella Curreyi, B, and Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 935 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., n. 953. 



On wood, baik, twigs. Not common. Gregarious, about 

 ^ line across ; often proliferous. 



Cyphella villosa. Karst. 



Sessile, whitish, externally villose, contracted and spherical 

 when dry ; hymenium even, whitish ; spores elliptic-oblong, 

 colourless, 10-12 x V-8 //,. 



Cyphella villosa, Karst., Myc. Fenn. iii. p. 325. 



Peziza villosa, Cke., Hdbk., n. 2065. 



On stems of herbaceous plants and on branches. Cups 

 |— ^ a line broad, hairy, snow-white or rather pallid. Dis- 

 tinguished from C. albo-violascens by the pale hymenium. 



Cyphella dochmiospora. B. & Br. 



White, sessile, cup-shaped, minutely villose, spores ellip- 

 tical, oblique, acute, colourless, 14—17 /*. 



Cyphella dochmiospora, B. and Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1373 ; 

 Stev., Brit. Fung. ii. 288. 



Minute, snow-white. Distinguished amongst the other 

 minute, white species by the large inequilateral, acute 

 spores. 



Cyphella Berkeley!. Mass. 

 Sessile, globose, then expanding and becoming campanu- 

 late, minutely pilose, reddish-grey as well as the even 

 hymenium ; spores colourless, elliptical, 7 X 5 fj,. 



