ORBILIA. 143 



SubgelatinoTis when moist ; usually tufted, more or less 

 top-shaped, the narrowed base of variable length, when 

 elongated often lacunose or wrinkled ; disc almost plane, or 

 unevenly depressed, wrinkled, yellow-brown with a tinge of 

 purple, %—l^, cm. high; excipulum composed of interwoven 

 hyphae which are septate and often constricted at the septa, 

 looking like a string of sausages ; asci cylindrical, 8-spored, 

 tapering into a long, slender pedicel; spores 1-seriate, 

 hyaline, continuous, smooth, elliptical, 8-10 x 4 ju; para- 

 physes very slender, tips scarcely thickened. 



Peziza rudis, Berk., Proc. Xat. Hist. Soc. Berwick, p. 190. 



On gravel and peat. 



Type specimen examined. 



The stem tapers to the base, and is often crooked, margin 

 of ascophore wavy. Colour paler and spores rather smaller 

 than in 0. sarcoides. 



Ombrophila brunnea. Phil., Grev., viii. p. 103 ; 

 Brit. Disc, p. 323 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 2551. 



Gelatinous when moist ; crowded, sessile or narrowed to a 

 more or less evident stem-like base, hemispherical at first, 

 then expanding and often becoming wavy, yellowish-brown, 

 glabrous, ^1 cm. across ; excipulum parenchymatous, 

 cortical cells polygonal, 25-30 /^ diameter ; asci cylindrical, 

 8-spored; spores obliquelj' 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, 

 often 2-guttulate and with the contents granular, elliptical, 

 18-21 X 7-8 fi ; paraphyses septate, clavate and adhering at 

 the tips ; hypothecium minutely parenchymatous. 



On dead herbaceous stems in damp jjlaces. 



Authentic specimens from Phillips examined. 



OKBILIA. Fries, (figs. 48-51, p. 156.) 



Ascophore somewhat gelatinous when moist, horny and 

 peUucid when dry ; sessile, attached by a central point, 

 small, at first subglobose, soon becoming plane or slightly 

 concave, superficial, clear coloured, usually red, yellow, or 

 white ; excipulum and hypothecium truly parenchymatous, 

 cortical cells large, polygonal; asci cylindric-clavate, 8- 

 spored ; spores 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, varying from 



