118 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
No. 158; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2084. P. Friesii— 
Pers., “Myco. Eur.,” i. 277. Phialea ciborioides—GilL, 
“Champ.,” p. 100. 
On oak-leaves. 
This is retained on the authority of the Rev. M. J. 
Berkeley, but, as no specimen exists, we are unable to 
give any microscopic details, without which it is impos- 
sible to satisfactorily determine what plant was under 
the eye of Mr. Berkeley. There appears, indeed, much 
uncertainty as to Fries’s plant, for Dr. Karsten regards 
Peziza bulgarioides (Rabh.) as identical with it, which 
grows on fir-cones, and is a subsessile species ; whereas 
Fries found his plant on culms, and describes it as having 
a very long stem. 
Herman Hoffman, in “ Analyticee Fungorum,” finds a 
species growing from a sclerotium on stems of clover 
which he refers to this species. Rehm’s Sclerotinia 
eiborioides—Fries (“ Ascomyceten,” No. 107) agrees per- 
fectly with Hoffman’s plant, and may be described 
thus: 
Cup convex, fleshy, brightish brown; stem long 
(1 inch), slender, flexuous, smooth, arising from a small 
black sclerotium ; asci cylindrical; sporidia .8, elliptical, 
biguttulate, 14—16 x 5—6u; paraphyses filiform. 
From a sclerotium on Tripolium sativum. This, 
which is most probably the true plant of Fries, has not 
yet been recorded for Britain. 
Name—Ciborium, a large drinking-cup, <8o¢, like- 
ness. 
Suscenus If.—Crsorra. Fckl, (amended), 
Firm, stem rather long, cup at first infundibuliform. 
Growing on twigs or fruit. (Plate V. fig. 25 ) 
Differing from the preceding by not rising from a 
manifest sclerotium, and from the following subgenus 
by the generally smaller size. 
Name—Ciborium, a large drinking-cup, Soc, like- 
ness. 
