140 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
draceo-clavate; sporidia 8, oblong or subfusiform, 8— 
10 x 2—8n; paraphyses filiform, slender. 
Peziza concolor—Phil. in “ Grevillea,” viii. p. 102; 
Steven., “ Myco. Scot.,” p. 321. 
On hard decorticated wood. 
Cup } to 3a line broad; stem } of a line long. 
Name—Concolor, of the same colour ; without varia- 
tion of colour. 
Forres, N.B.! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 
b. On herbaceous stems and grass. 
40. Hymenoscypha cyathoidea. (Bull.) 
Cup at first pyriform, then hemispherical, at length 
expanded, thin, tough, glabrous, white or pallid, margin 
entire ; stem rather long, flexuous, attenuated downwards ; 
asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, narrowly fusiform 
or linear, 5—8 x 1—l‘5u; paraphyses filiform, slender. 
Peziza cyathoidea—Bull, “Champ.,” p. 250, t. 416, £3; 
Pers., “Syn. Fung.,” p. 662; “ Myco. Eur.,” i. p. 284; Fries, 
“Sys. Myco.,” i. p. 124; “Eng. Flo,” v. p. 202; 
Nees, f. 294. P. pedicellata—Sow., t. 369, f. 4; Cooke, 
“Handbk.,” No. 2092;. Karst., “Pez. et Ascob.,” p. 30; 
Nyl., “ Pez. Fenn.,” p. 40; Gonn. and Rabh., iii. t. 6, f. 7. 
Cyathicula vulgaris—De Not., “ Dise.,” p. 27. Helotiwm 
cyathordewm—Karst., “ Myco. Fenn.,” p. 186. Phialea 
cyathoidea—Gill., “Champ.,” p. 106. 
Exs.—Desm., “Crypt. Fr.,” ed. i. 1061, ed. ii. 461; 
Berk., exs. 158; Karst, “Fung. Fenn.,” 836; Fckl., 
“F. Rh.” 1179; Phil, “ Elv. Brit.” 79, 80 ; Rehm, “ Asco.,” 
306 ; Roumg., “Fung. Gal.” 832; Cooke, “Fung. Brit.,” 
ed. ii. 377. 
On dead herbaceous stems, thistle, potato, Lychnis, 
Heraclewm, ete. 
Cup { to 3 of a line broad ; the stem about } a line long. 
Scattered or gregarious, cyathiform, texture tough, when 
quite young slightly pruinose externally; the stem 
slender, variable in length. 
Wame—xiabog, a little cup, eSoe, a resemblance. 
