122 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
The exterior is clothed with fine, adpressed, silky hairs ; 
not glabrous, as stated by Desmaziere. 
Name—Luteus, yellow, virens, green; greenish- 
yellow. 
Near Newport, Salop! Wrekin, Salop! 
B. SPORIDIA OBLONGO-ELLIPTIC OR FUSIFORM. 
(a) On fruit. 
12. Hymenoscypha echinophila. (Bull.) 
Cup infundibuliform, then plane, fleshy, pale cin- 
namon or subfuliginous, glabrous; hymenium rusty 
brown; stem paler, rather slender, more or less elongated, 
at first subtomentose, then glabrous; asci cylindraceo- 
clavate; sporidia 8, oblong or oblong-elliptic, curved, 
often furnished at the poles with a short appendage, 
having a globose head, 2 to 4 guttulate, 12—22 x 4—5y; 
paraphyses filiform, slightly enlarged at the summits. 
Peziza echinophila—Bull,, “Champ.,” ii. p. 235, t. 500, 
f. 1; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii p. 118; D. C, “Flo. Fr,” 
ii. p. 82; Pers. “Myco. Eur.,” p. 278; B. and Br., “Ann. 
Nat. Hist.,” No. 567; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2085; Pat., 
p. 35, f. 85. Phialea echinophila—Gill, “Champ.,” 101, 
ce. i. 
Exs.—Phil, “Elv. Brit.,” 32; Rehm, “ Asco.,” 606; 
Roumg., “ Fung. Gal.” 648; Cooke, “Fung. Brit.,” ed. ii. 
367. 
On decaying involucres of chestnut. Autumn. 
Cup about 24 to § lines broad. 
Name—tyivoc, a hedgehog, gidoc, loving; found on 
spiny involucres. 
King’s Lynn (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Norton Camp, 
near Craven Arms! Near Hereford! 
13. Hymenoscypha subularis. (Bull.) 
Cup hypocrateriform, entire, fragile, lateritius or 
pallid-brown ; hymenium darker; stem long, slender, 
flexuose, same colour; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 
