CHL0R0SPLENIU3I. 285 



elongated, 8-spored , spores 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, 

 2-guttulate, elliptical, apex sometimes most obtuse, 14-16 X 

 7-8 fj. ; paraphyses slender, hyaline. 



Peziza bulborum,, Wakker, Bot. Central., viii. p. 309. 



Botrytis form. Compact brownish-buff tufts, tips of fertile 

 branchlets spinulose, each spine bearing a smooth, hyaline, 

 elliptical, apiculate conidium, 9-10 x 7 /«.. 



On bulbs of Hyacinthus, Scilla, Crocus, and Allium. 



Excluded species. 



Sclerotinia trifoliorum. Eriks. On Klofv. 

 Symenoscypha ciborioides, Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 117. 

 There is no evidence of the above-named species having 

 occurred in Britain. 



CHLOEOSPLENIUM. Fries, (figs. 41-42, p. 156.) 



Ascophore stipitate. or almost sessile, tough and pliant, at 

 first closed, then expanded, glabrous, verdigris-green or 

 dingy olive, margin usually irregular and wavy; hypo- 

 thecium and excipulum formed of interwoven hyphae ; asci 

 narrowly cylindric-clavate, 8-spored; spores hyaline, con- 

 tinuous or septate, elongated, irregularly 2-seriate ; para- 

 physes present. 



Chlorosplenium, Fries, Summa Veg. Scand., p. 356 ; Phil., 

 Brit. Disc, p. 146 ; Sacc, Syll., viii. p. 316. 



Peziza, of various authors. 



Distinguished by the tough substance and green or olive 

 colour of the ascophore. Some species impart a deep 

 verdigris-green colour to the wood on which they grow. 



Coryne somewhat resembles the present genus, but differs 

 in the texture of the ascophore being more or less 

 gelatinous. 



Chlorosplenium aeruginosum. De Not., Prop. 

 Eett. Discom., p. 22; Eehm, Krypt.-Fiora, Disc, p. 753 

 figs. 1-5, p. 749 ; Phil., Brit. Disc, p. 147, pi. 6, f. 28; Sacc, 

 Syll., viii. n. 1311. (figs. 41-42, p. 156.) 



