134 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Norfolk ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Near Hereford! near 
Shrewsbury! Forres, N.B.! (Rev. Dr. Keith). — 
B. SPORIDIA BROADLY FUSIFORM OR CLAVATE. 
(a) On wood (one on fruit). 
30. Hymenoscypha aquatica. (Curr.) 
Cup stipitate; disc minute, very little wider than 
the apex of the delicate, almost filiform stem, concave 
or convex; asci cylindrical or cylindraceo-clavate ; 
sporidia 8, colourless, elliptic or clavate, biguttulate, 
13—15 x 5—6y. 
Helotium aquaticum—Curr., “Linn. Trans.,” xxiv. 
p. 154, t. 25, f 19; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2139. 
On fragment of stick in water. May. 
Cup 3 a line broad; stem about % to 23 lines long; 
solitary. The measures of the sporidia given above are 
derived from Mr. Currey’s original specimen. It is to be 
regretted he made no note of the colour. 
Name—A quaticus, of the water; from its habitat. 
Paul’s Cray Common, Kent! (Mr. F. Currey). 
31. Hymenoscypha virgultorum. (Vahl.) 
Gregarious, stipitate, tough, glabrous, hymenium 
yellowish red, at length rufous; cup patelleform or 
frequently convex ; exterior paler; stem slender, attenu- 
ated downwards, subflocculose; asci eylindraceo-clavate; 
sporidia 8, fusiform, often slightly curved, biguttulate, 
becoming 1 to 2 pseudo-septate, 14—23 x 3—5u; para- 
physes filiform. 
Peziza virguitorum—Vahl, “Flo. Dan.,” +t. 1016, 
f. 2; Nyl, “Pez. Fenn..” p. 37; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. 
p. (as var. 8 of fructigena). Helotiwm virgultorwm— 
Karst., “Myco. Fenn.,” p. 109; Cooke, “Handbk.,” 2133 
(exs. part). 
On dead branches of trees. Autumn. 
This nearly resembles fructigena, and is regarded by 
many high authorities as a variety of that species, but it 
