114 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



curved, 2-4-guttulate, 6-12 x 2 • 5-3 fx ; paraphyses numerous, 

 slightly thickened and hrown at the tip. 



Peziza furfuracea, Eoth, Catal. Bot., p. 257, t. 9, fig. 3. 



Bermatea furfuracea, 'Ft., Summa Veg. Scand., p. 362. 



Encoelia furfuracea, Karst, Myc. Fenn., i. p. 218; Phil., 

 Brit. Disc, p. 337. 



On alder, hazel, &c. 



Varying greatly in size from IJ lines to J an inch broad. 

 Caespitose or solitary, erumpent, variously deformed by 

 pressure, coated with a pale rusty meal ; hymenium cinna- 

 mon. (Phil.) 



Specimen examined from Cooke's Pung. Brit., exs. n. 453. 



Cenangittm Bloxami. Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2343. 



Gregarious or often caespitose, saucer-shaped, narrowed to 

 a short, stem-like base, margin slightly wavy, coriaceous, 

 A-1 cm. across ; excipulum internally consisting of inter- 

 woven hyphae, becoming parenchymatous at the periphery, 

 purple brown; disc brownish, externally blackish-brown, 

 and minutely verrucose or scurfy; asci cylindrical, apex 

 rounded, 8-spored ; spores obliquely 1-seriate, elliptic-oblong, 

 ends obtuse, smooth, hyaline, usually 1-2-guttulate, 4—6 X 

 2"5 /a; paraphyses filiform, not thickened upwards, ad- 

 herent. 



Encoelia Bloxami, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 338. 



On dead wood. 



Fusiform, 1 - septate stylospores, hyaline at first then 

 tinged, brown, 20-24 X 4-5 /j,, are very abundant on the disc 

 along with the asci, and are borne singly at the apex of 

 slender filaments resembling the ordinary paraphyses in 

 length and thickness. The colours given above are derived 

 from dried specimens, and may require modification when 

 the living condition is observed. 



Type specimen examined. 



Cenangium populneum. Eehm, Krypt.-Plora, Disc, 

 p. 220, figs. 2-5, p. 215 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2333. 



Caespitose, rarely solitary, erumpent, sessile and attached 

 by a narrowed point, thin and leathery; closed when young, 

 then expanding, margin usually somewhat wavy, incurved, 

 especially when dry, often irregular from mutual pressure ; 



