126 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
D. SPORIDIA UNKNOWN. 
19. Hymenoscypha tuba. (Bolt.) 
Cup campanulate, disc plane-umbilicate, stem filiform ; 
altogether bright pale yellow. 
Peziza, tuba—Bolt., “Hist. Fung,” iii. t. 106, £ 1; 
Pers. “Myco. Eur,” p. 278; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. 
p. 128 (excl. part); “Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 202. Meruleus 
tubeeformis—With., vol. 4, p. 146. Helotiwm tuba—Fries, 
“Summa Veg. Scan,” p. 355; Berk., “ Outl,” p. 372; 
Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2140. Phialea tuba—Gill, 
“ Champ.,” p. 99. 
On putrid stems of plants, in moist places. 
“This beautiful little peziza adheres by a claw at the 
base to the putrid stems of decayed plants in moist 
places near rills of water. It is shaped like a trumpet 
in miniature. The height about half an inch. The 
colour a bright pale yellow ” (Bolt., 4. c.). 
Name—Tuba, a trumpet; from its shape. 
Var. B. Ochracea—B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 
No. 1486. 
On a heap of decaying vegetables, 
Menmuir (Rev. M. Anderson). 
Suzscenvus II].—Tricwoscypua. Cooke. 
_ Cup cyathiform, entire, stipitate; margin furnished 
with hair-like rigid processes. (Plate V. fig. 26.) 
Dr. Cooke has shown that the hair-like processes in 
the four exotic species, for the reception of which he formed 
the subgenus, viz. Peziza sulcipes (Berk.), P. Hindsii 
(Berk.), P. tricholoma (Mont.), and P. insititia (B. and 
C.), are not true hairs, but squamules, composed of a 
number of longitudinal cells lying parallel to each other, 
the exterior ones gradually diminishing in length, so that 
the base of each squamule is broader than the apex. 
This structure is the same in the teeth of the well-known 
Peziza inflexa (Bolt.), and although this species is much 
smaller than the exotic species named above, it must be 
