146 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Name—Cacalia, an herb; from its habitat, 
Guernsey, in Herb. Berk. ! 
Genus IV.—CstorosPLentum. Fries, “Summa Veg. 
Scan.,” p. 356. 
Cup stipitate, concave or plane, glabrous, waxy, 
tough ; eruginous green or olivaceous. (Plate V. fig. 28.) 
Name—yAwpée, green, orAijv, the spleen; from the 
colour. 
Readily distinguished by their dark colour, olivaceous 
ov verdigris-green. They are often irregular in form, 
and the margin often repand. C. eruginosus stains the 
wood on which it grows with its green mycelium. 
ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 
a. Sporidia elliptic on ae . aie ++ species 1 
B. Sporidia fusiform 
A. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC. 
t Chlorospleniwm versiforme. (Pers.) 
Gregarious, stipitate or subsessile; cup concave, be- 
coming plane or convex, difformed or contorted; hyme- 
nium yellowish olive or fuliginous brown; stem slender, 
often absent ; asci cylindrical ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 8 x 4; 
paraphyses filiform, slender. — 
Peziza versiformis—Pers., “Icon. et Deser.,” p. 25, 
t. 7, £. 7; “Syn. Fung.,.” p. 647; “ Myco. Eur.,” p. 243; 
A. and &., p. 314 (6. lavida) ; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 
181; Karst., “Mon. Pez.,” p..141. Helotium versiforme 
—Berk., “ Outl,” p. 372, t. 2, £ 6; Cooke, “Handbk.,” 
No. 2152; Gill, “Champ.” p. 158. Chlorospleniwm 
versiforme—De Not., “Dise,” p. 22; Karst., “Myco. 
Fenn.,” p. 102. Peziza bulgarioides—Rabh., “ Hedw.,” 
1870, p. 136. 
Exs.—Rabh., “ Fung. Eur.,” 1008, 1311; Berk., “ Brit. 
Fung.,” 274; Thum., “Mycoth. Univ.,” 217; Berk., 274; 
Ellis, “N. A. Fungi,” 988. 
