276 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



mined; also, Desm., Cr. Fr., ser. i., n. 1541 (collected by 

 Eoberge), and Elv. Brit., n. 122. 



Ciboria ochracea. Mass. 



Scattered, at first top-sliaped and closed, then funnel- 

 shaped, finally plane or the often irregular margin more of 

 less drooping, thin and rather tough, 2-4 mm. acrost^, 

 glabrous, every part ochraceous ; stem 4-8 mm. long, |-| mm. 

 thick, thinner towards the base, glabrous; hypothecium and 

 excipulum formed of interwoven, slender hyphae, passing: 

 into a small-celled, parenchymatous cortex ; asci narrowly 

 cylindrio-clavate, apex slightly narrowed, 8-spored ; spores- 

 obliquely 1-seriate, hyaline, smooth, continuous, very nar- 

 rowly cylindric-fusiform, ends rather acute, often slightly 

 curved, 8-10 x 1'5 /«,; paraphyses slender, hyaline, veiy 

 slightly thickened at the tip. 



Selotium tuba, Fr., h. ochracea, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., 

 n. 1486, ser. iv., vol. xv. p. 38 (1875) ; Phil., Brit. Disc., 

 p. 126. 



On a heap of decaying vegetation. 



The present species is a typical Ciboria, and cannot be 

 allowed to stand as the variety of a species, the type of which 

 is itself practically unknown. 



Type specimen examined. 



Ciboria echinophila. Sacc, Fung. Ven., ser. iv., 

 n. 89 ; Sacc, SylL, viii. n. 824. 



Scattered, stipitate, subglobose and closed at first, then 

 funnel-shaped, at length almost or quite plane, rather fleshy, 

 glabrous, pale cinnamon or brownish, 2-6 mm. across ; stem 

 about 1 cm. long, slender, often wavy, pale, minutely 

 downy at first, becoming smooth ; hypothecium tinged 

 brown, and with the hyaline excipulum formed of interlacino- 

 hyphae, cortex parenchymatous, cells brown ; asci cylindric- 

 clavate, 8-spored; spores 1-seriate or with a tendency to 

 become 2-seiiate near the tip of the ascus, hyaline, subcylin- 

 drieal or sausage-shaped, rather strongly curved, ends obtuse, 

 3-4-guttulate, then more or less completely multiseptaie 

 16-21 X 5 /a; paraphyses slender, tip slightly thickened. 



Peziza echinophila. Bull., Champ. Fr., p. 235, tab 500 



Hymenoscypha echinophila, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 122. 



