130 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
22. Hymenoscypha monilifera. (Fckl) 
Stipitate, scattered or caspitose; cup seated 
amongst Bisporo, at first subclavate, at length dilated ; 
hymenium concave, patellate when mature, marginate, 
waxy, externally as well as the rather long stem, smooth, 
pallid-brown; disc slightly darker; asci elongated ; 
sporidia 8, biseriate, oblong, attenuated towards each 
end, but obtuse, at length uniseptate, 12 x 4u, hyaline ; 
paraphyses filiform, subclavate. 
Bispora monilifera—Fckl., “Symb. Myco.,” p. 310. 
Peziza monilifera—Cooke, “ Grevillea,” iv. p. 111. 
Exs.— F. Rh.,” 74. 
Amongst Bispora monilioides on cut timber. 
Cup % to 1 line broad, 4 to 14 lines high. 
Fuckel has constituted a new genus, under the name 
Bispora, for this species, of which he assumes that 
Bispora monilioides is the conidial form. 
Name—WMonile, a necklace, and fero, to carry; from 
its relationship to Bispora monilioides. 
Dupplin Castle, N.B. 
23. Hymenoscypha Hedwigit (nov. sp.). 
Cup stipitate, concave or plane, yellow tinged with 
orange, margin entire, paler beneath; stem rather long, 
lower half tomentose, whiteand enlarged; asci cylindraceo- 
clavate ; sporidia oblong or oblong-elliptic, biguttulate, 
7—10 x 38u. 
Octospora fungoidaster—Hedw., “ Mus. Frond.,” ii. 
p. 53, t. x1x. figs. 1-4. Peziza fructiginea, B. virgultorwm 
—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p.118.  P. virgultorwn—* Flo. 
Dan.,” t. 1016, f. 2. 
On twigs of hazel. May. 
Cup 3 to 1} lines broad, height about the same. The 
cups are at first concave, then plane; the stem is white, 
enlarged at the base, and attached to the wood by white 
mycelium. 
Name—After Joannes Hedwig. 
Hanwood, near Shrewsbury ! 
