HYMENOSCYPHA. 139 
C. SPORIDIA FUSIFORM, NARROW, 
(a) On wood. 
37. Hymenoscypha aurea. (Pers.) 
Cup stipitate, concave, or plane, fleshy, darkish- 
yellow, glabrous, except at the base of the slender, rather 
long stem, which is tomentose and white ; asci cylindraceo- 
clavate ; sporidia 8, fusiform or oblong-fusiform, simple 
or pseudo-septate, 9—10 x 1—2u; paraphyses filiform, 
slender, sometimes branched. 
Helotium aurewm—Pers., “Syn. Fung.,” p. 678; A. 
and §., p. 350; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 156; Gill, 
“Champ.,” p. 155. 
On decorticated wood, especially pine. 
Cup about 4 to 1 line broad; stem about 1 to 1} lines 
long, gregarious, slender, but firm. 
Name—Aureus, golden ; from the colour. 
Near Shrewsbury ; Carlisle ! (Dr. Carlyle). 
38. Hymenoscypha emergens. Cooke and Phil. 
Scattered or fasciculate, emerging from beneath the 
bark ; cups hemispherical or infundibuliform, stipitate, 
glabrous, pale ochraceous; hymenium darker; margin 
entire ; stem flexuose, tapering downwards; asci cylin- 
drical, or cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia fusiform, simple, 
straight or slightly bent, 12—14 x 1—1:24; paraphyses 
not seen. 
On dead branches of a tree, emerging from beneath 
the bark. 
Cup 4 to line broad; height, including stem, 4 to 
line. 
: Name—Lmergo, to issue ; from its habit of growth. 
Scotland ! (Capt. Carmichael in Kew Herb.). 
39. Hymenoscypha concolor. Phil. 
Cup hemispherical, thin, firm, pallid or dirty white ; 
externally pruinose; hymenium pallid-brown; margin 
minutely fimbriate; stem short, rather stout; asci cylin- 
