216 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



hemispherical, concave, sessile, or at length expanded, 

 margin incurved ; externally densely farinaceous, pale ; 

 internally of a pinkish-yellow or flesh colour. (B. & Br.) 



*** On pine leaves and cones. 



Mollisia incarnata. Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 191. 



Ascophore subsessile, becoming almost plane, disc tinged 

 flesh-colour, pale olive externally, ahout ^ mm. diameter ; 

 cup-shaped when dry, margin more or less incurved and 

 often irregular, rather fleshy, marginal cells in rows, disc 

 pallid, dark olive externally ; asci clavate, spores 8, hyaline, 

 continuous, smooth, elliptical, ends rather acute, 9-11 X 

 3 • 5-4 fi. ; paraphyses rather scanty, filiform, slightly clavate 

 at the apex. 



Peziza incarnata, Cooke, Grev., v. p. 131. 



Pezizella incarnata (Oke.), Saco., Syll., n. 1186. 



On pine leaves ; Scotland. Scattered or gregarious. The 

 form and size of the spores were incorrectly described by 

 Cooke, and copied by Phillips and Saccardo. Type specimen 

 examined. 



Mollisia pineti. Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 195. 



G-regarious or scattered, sessile, globose, then expanding 

 until nearly plane, contracted when dry ; disc whitish or 

 pale grey, externally darker, margin minutely granular or 

 pubescent, ^-1 mm. across, thin and soft ; excipulum paren- 

 chymatous, cells small, becoming elongated and very narrow 

 upwards, ending at the margin in parallel, short, slender 

 hyphae ; asci cylindrio-clavate, apex narrowed, 8-spored ; 

 spores irregularly 2-seriate, hyaline, continuous, narrowly 

 cylindric-fusoid, straight or slightly curved, 14-18 x 1 • 5- 

 2 /x ; paraphyses slender, hyaline, tips thickened. 



Peziza pineti, Batsch, Elench., p. 201, fig. 240. 



Pseudohelotium pineti, Sacc, Syll., viii. n. 1231. 



On dead fallen leaves of Scotch fir. 



Specimen in Eehm's Ascom., n. 561b, examined. 



Concatenate or solitary cells of various sizes, resembling- 

 some minute alga, but coloured, are often present in the 

 tissue of the excipulum or growing up between the para- 

 physes and asci of this species. 



