206 FUXGUS-FLOEA. 



MoUisia aquosa. Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 172; Sacc, 

 Syll., viii. n. 1382. 



Scattered, sessile, at first globose and closed, then ex- 

 panding until slightly concave or almost plane, glabrous; 

 disc pallid or pale grey, externally brown with an olivo 

 tinge, about ^ mm. across ; excipulum parenchymatous, 

 cortical cells brown, irregularly polygonal, 8-10 /x diameter; 

 asci narrowly clavate, 8-spored ; spores hyaline, continuous, 

 smooth, elliptical, ends rather acute, 5-6 X 3-3 ■ 5 /x, 2-seriate, 

 or almost 1-seriate; paraphyses slender, hyaline, tips not 

 thickened. 



Peziza (Mollisia) aquosa, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 1326, 

 ser. iv., vol. vii. p. 18, t. xx., fig. 19. 



Growing on Lasiosphaeria hirsuta, on willow branches. 



Allied to M. cinerea, but the ascophoro is smaller, and the 

 spores shorter and broader. 



Type specimen examined. 



Mollisia lignicola. Phil., Grev., xv. p. 113; Brit. 

 Disc, p. 180; Eehm., Krypt. -Flora, Disc, p. 622. 



Gregarious or scattered, sessile, globose and closed at first, 

 then expanding and becoming only very slightly concave, 

 margin somewhat irregular; disc pallid, externally blackisL- 

 brown, rough with minute jjoints due to projecting grouj s 

 <) f cells, and vertically wrinkled, about J mm. across; exci- 

 pulum parenchymatous, cortical cells irregularly polygonal, 

 brown, 8-10 /a diameter, running out into parallel rows 1 1' 

 fieptate, obtuse hyphae at the margin ; asci clavate, apex 

 rounded, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 2-seriate, narrowly 

 cylindrio-fusiform, straight or slightly curved, hyaline, coi"- 

 tinuous, 6-9 X 2-2-5 /j.; paraphyses slender, hyaline, about 

 2-5 jj, thick at the tip. 



Pyrenopeziza lignicola, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 1511. 



On old worked wood, decorticated trunks, &c. 



Type specimen examined. 



Mollisia mall. Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 194. 



Gregarious, minute, nearly \ mm. across, sessile, closed 



and globose, then expanding, margin incurved when dr\, 



yellowisli-green or sometimes almost honey-colour, thin aiid 



rather watery; excipulum parenchymatous, cells long and 



