TAPESIA. 299 



hairs ; in tlie present variety these hairs are developed to a 

 greater or less extent. 



Var. prunicola. Mass. 



Ascophores larger than in the typical form, externally 

 black downy. 



Tapesia prunicola, Fckl., Symb. Myc, p. 302. 

 Tapesia rosae, yat. prunicola, Phil., Brit. Disc. p. 279. 

 On branches of Pninus spinosa. 



Tapesia aurelia. Phil., Brit. Disc., p. 280, pi. 8, 

 fig. 50. 



Ascophores scattered, sessile, seated on a thin, white, 

 spreading subioulum, concave ; externally and the margin 

 pilose, hairs 4^5 fx. thick, length variable, generally con- 

 tinuous, golden-yellow, the margin sometimes reddish ; ex- 

 cipulum formed of interwoven hyphae ; asci narrowly cla- 

 vate, apex slightly narrowed, 8-spored ; spores irregularly 

 1-seriate, or with a tendency to become 2-seriate, hyaline, 

 narrowly elliptical, ends rather pointed, becoming 3-septate, 

 16-18 xi /".; paraphyses slender, hyaline, tips not thickened. 



Peziza aurelia, Pers., Myc. Eur., p. 270. 



Belonidium aurelia. De Kot., Prof. Disc, p. 381 ; Sacc, 

 SyU., viii. n. 2061. 



On decaying oak leaves, bark, mast, &c., lying on the 

 ground. Spring. 



Specimens examined from Gke., Fung. Brit., n. 563, and 

 Elv. Brit., n. 29. 



Tapesia aurata. Mass. 

 Ascophores gregarious, sessile but narrowed below, closed 

 at first, then expanded, margin erect, acute, disc yellowish or 

 tawny, externally paler, and clothed with delicate, thin- 

 ■walled, septate, cylindrical or slightly tapering, straight, 

 colourless hairs, sometimes minutely rough near the tip, 

 60-85 X 4 /t ; very thin and delicate, about ^ mm. across ; 

 seated on a thin, whitish subiculum formed of thin, branched, 

 interwoven hyphae often extending for several centimetres ; 

 asci narrowly clavate, apex somewhat pointed and thick- 

 walled, pedicel elongated, slender, 8-spored ; spores arranged 

 in a parallel fascicle in the ascus, hyaline, slender and elon- 

 gated, apex slightly obtuse, base pointed, multiguttulate 



