PSEUCOPEZIZA. 195 



Pseudopeziza petiolaris. Mass. 



Asoophore minute, developing under the epidermis, its 

 jnesence indicated by a pale grey spot, then emerging 

 through an elongated slit, or less frequently through a 

 stellate rupture with 3-4 teeth ; often longish, marginate, 

 yellowish-grey, soft, i— 1 mm. across ; asci clavate, small, 

 S-spored ; spores cylindric-clavate, obtuse, straight, ooi:- 

 tinuous, hyaline, smooth, biseriate, 6-9 x 11-2.1 //. ; para- 

 physes filiform, septate, becoming graduallj- thicker upwards, 

 a ft thick at the apex, colourless. 



Pe^ciza enimpens, Grev.. Soot., Cr. FL, t. 90. 



Hysterium netiolare, Albert. & Sohweinitz, Comp. Fung. 

 Xisk., p. 59. 



Molltsia enimpens, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 107. 



Mollisia petiolaris, Sacc, SylL, viii. n. 1460. 



Trochila petiolaris, Eehm, Krypt.-Flora, Disc, p. 132. 



On dead petioles of leaves of sycamore and horse chestnui-. 



Eesembling a small Hysterium or Lo^'hoilenniirin tti the 

 raked eye. 



** On Tierhaceous stems and culms of Anrjhjsperms. 



Pseudopeziza artemisiae. Mass. 



Gregarious or scattered, erumpent, sessile, at first closed 

 and turbinate, then expanding until almost plane, up t.j 

 1 mm. across ; disc pallid, externally dark brown, often with 

 an olive tinge, margin pale; excipulum parenchymatous, 

 cortical cells irregularly polygonal, dark brown, 6-S fx. 

 diameter, smaller and paler at the margin ; asci clavate, 

 apes narrowed, base rather stout, 8-spored ; spores obliquely 

 2-seriate, hyaline, continuous, narrowly elliptical, end.-, 

 rather acute, straight or vavy slightlj- curved, 7-11 X 

 1 • 5—2 fx ; paraphyses hyaline, about 3 /u, thick at the slightly 

 thickened tips. 



Peziza artemisiae, Lasch, in Eab., Herb. Myc., n. 335. 



IMoUisia artemisiae, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. ISS. 



Pyrenopeziza artemisiae, Kehm, Ascom., exs., n. 66 ; Eehm, 

 Krypt.-Flora, Disc, p. 610 ; Sacc, SylL, viii. n. 1484. 



On dead stems oi Artemisia vul(jaris. 



Specimens examined in Eabenh., Herb. Myc, ed. ii. n. 623 

 (collected by Lasch) ; and Eehm, Ascom., n. 66. 



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