124 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Name—Firmus, firm; from its firm flesn. 
King’s Lynn! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Forres, N.B. 
(Rev. Dr. Keith). Hawthornden, near Edinburgh! Down- 
ton Castle, near Ludlow! Condover! Craven Arms! 
Church Stretton ! and The Wrekin, Salop. 
15. Hymenoscypha bolaris. (Batsch.) 
Cup infundibuliform or subhemispherical, firm; ex- 
ternally fibrilose-veined or wrinkled, nearly ochraceous ; 
hymenium brown, margin subserrated; stem rather 
short, attenuated downwards or equal; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia oblong-elliptic, biguttulate, 14—16 x 4—6n; 
paraphyses filiform, rather stout. 
Peziza bolaris—Batsch, i. p. 221, f. 155; Fries, “Sys. 
Myco.,” ii. p. 112; Pers. “Syn. Fung.,” p. 658; “ Myco. 
Eur.,” p. 279; A. and 8, p. 330; “Eng. Flo.” v. p. 
200; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” 2078. Oiboria bolaris—Fckl., 
“Symb. Myco.,” p. 311. 
Exs.—Phil, “Elv. Brit.” 171; Roumg., “ Fung. Gal.,” 
1260. 
On dry fallen branches of holly. 
Cup 14 to 2 lines broad and high; externally paler 
than the disc; when dry the margin is inflexed. 
Name—Peéroe, a clod; perhaps in allusion to the 
colour. 
Forres, N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 
16. Hymenoscypha Aspegrenii. (Fries.) 
Gregarious, stipitate ; cup subrepand; hymenium 
yellow; externally, as well as the subascending stem, 
white ; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, oblong or oblong- 
elliptic, biguttulate, 8—10 x 3'5u. 
Peziza Aspegrenii—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 181. 
Helotium Aspegrenii—Fries, “Summa Veg. Scan.,” p. 
355; Berk., “ Outl.,” p. 372; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2144. 
Peziza bicolor, var. Sow., t. 369, £7. Phialea Aspegrenii 
—Gill., “Champ.,” p. 107, ¢ i. 
On rotten hazel in a wet ditch. Spring. 
“Two to three lines high ; stem somewhat slender ” 
(Fries). 
