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present species has only once been collected m Britain — 

 Epping Forest — so far as I am aware. 



Pocillum Boltoni, Phil., Grev., vol. xvi. p. 94 ; Sacc, 

 SyU., viii. n. 2502. 



Minute, scattereil, at first cylindrical, then becoming 

 nearly turbinato-truncate, glabrous, shining, horn-coloured, 

 soft, "watery, much contracted when dry ; hymenium plane 

 or a little depressed ; asoi broadly clavate ; spores 8, 

 elongated, subc^'liadrical, obtuse at the ends, 40 -50 X 3-4 jj, ; 

 paraphyses filiform, thickened at the apices. 



On dead Equisetum, lying in water. 



Ascophore 100-200 /T broa.l, 300^00 /x high. The spores, 

 which are large for the size of the plant, are straight or a 

 little bent, colourless, and furnished with several large 

 vacuoles. They have a propensity to throw out long germ- 

 tubes while yet in the ascus. The exeipuluni is composed of 

 elongated septate threads, but showins^ no colour, as in the 

 other species of the genus. (Phillips.) 



Unknown to me. 



STA:^INAEIA. Puckel. (figs. 15-17, p. 156). 



G-regarious, minute, eruinpent, shortly stipitate, closed at 

 first then expanding, but the opening remaining contracted 

 and surrounded by a delicate, minutely fimbriate, scarious 

 margin; horny, glabrous, rigid when dry; asoi clavate, 

 apex narrowed and with the wall thickened, 8-spored ; 

 spores elongated, hyaline, continuous, 2-seriate ; paraphyses 

 sjptate. 



Slarunaria, Fckl., Sj'mb. Myc, p. 309; Phillips, Brit. 

 Disc, p. 321; Eehm, Krypt. -Flora Disc, p. 465; Sacc, SylL, 

 viii. p. 620. 



Peziza, of old authors. 



Distinguished by the horny, perfectly glabrous ascophore 

 with a somewhat narrowed, delicately bordered mouth. 



Stamnaria equiseti. Sacc, SylL, viii. n. 2559; 

 Eehm, Krypt.-Flora Disc, p. 466, figs. 1-7, p. 449, (figs. 

 15-17, p. 156.) 



