138 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Name—Lysimachia, a genus of Primulacee ; from 
its habitat. © 
Shrewsbury ! 
Var. Rudbeckic. 
Cup 1 line wide; stem about 1 to 1} lines high, 
cylindrical, expanding into the base of the cup; sporidia 
18—25 X 4—by. 
On dead stems of Rudbeckia. 
Name—Rudbeckia, a genus of Composite: from its 
habitat. 
Batheaston ! (Mr. C. E. Broome). 
(c) On leaves. 
36. Hymenoscypha albida. (Rob.)' 
Cup at first subhemispherical, then plane, white, 
glabrous, margin entire; stem rather stout, enlarged 
upwards; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform 
or oblongo-elliptic, 2 to 3-guttulate, curved, becoming 
pseudo-septate, 15—17 x 4u; paraphyses filiform. 
Peziza albida—Rob. in Desm., “Crypt. Fr.,” ed. i. 
2004, and ed. ii. 1604; “Ann. Se. Nat.,” 1851, vol. xvi. p. 
323. Helotium scutula, var. albidwm—Karst., “ Myco. 
Fenn.,” p. 112; “Grevillea,” vi. p.127. Phialea albida 
—Gill., “Champ,” p. 105. 
Exs.—Desm., “ Crypt. Fr.,” 1. ¢. 
On decaying petioles of Fraxinus. 
Cup 4 to 1 line broad; stem about the same long. 
When fresh this is ivory-white ; the stem is often brown 
at the base. 
Name—Albidus, inclining to white; whitish. 
Copthorn, near Shrewsbury ! 
Var. disculi. 
The sporidia are larger than in H. albida, 20— 
23 X 4—5y, and more frequently clavate. 
On petioles of horse-chestnut. 
Name— 4sculus, the horse-chestnut ; from its habitat. 
Shobdon Court, Herefordshire ! 
