CHLOROSPLENIUM. 147 
On fir-cones and ash-stumps. 
Cup 5 lines broad; entire height about the same. 
Name—Verto, to turn, forma, shape; variable in 
form. 
Apethorpe ! (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 
B. SPORIDIA FUSIFORM. 
2. Chlorospleniwm ceruginosum. (“Flo. Dan.”) 
Cup shortly stipitate or sessile, head turbinate, then 
expanded, subflexuose, verdigris-green ; hymenium paler ; 
stem short, rather stout ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 
8, fusiform, 10—14 x 3:5—45u; paraphyses filiform, 
slender. (Plate V. fig. 28.) 
Peziza wruginosa— Flo. Dan.,” t. 1260, f. 1; Pers., 
“Syn. Fung.,” p. 617; and “ Myco. Eur.,” i. p. 219; Fries, 
“Sys. Myco.,” it. p. 180; “Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 202; “ Grev.,” 
t. 241; Sow., 347; “Flo. Dan.,” 534, 1260, f 1; Nyl, 
“Pez. Fenn.,” p. 41; Karst., “Mon. Pez.,” 142. “Helotwwm 
eruginosum— Fries, “Summa Veg. Scan.,” p. 353; Fekl., 
“ Symb. Myco.,” p. 314; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2131; 
Berk., “ Outl.,” 372; Gill. “Champ.,” p. 151,¢ i. Chloro- 
splenium eruginosum—Tul., “Select. Fung. Carp.,” iii. 
. 187. 
: Exs.—Berk., No. 281; Karst., Nos. 151, 459; Rav.,-v. 
No. 40; Fekl, “F. Rh,” 1158; Phil. “Elv. Brit.” No. 
86; Ellis, “N. A. Fung.” 987; Roumg., “Fung. .Gal.,” 
1858; Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” ed. ii. 389. 
On fallen oak branches, staining the wood on which 
it grows, for a considerable depth, of a deep verdigris- 
green, the wood so stained being employed as “green 
oak” in the manufacture of Tunbridge ware. The fully 
developed cups are much more rare than the green 
mycelioid state. 
The cups are 4 to 24 lines broad; the stem is very 
variable in length, and often carries more than one cup. 
The margin is often lobed, though generally regular. 
Name—4rugo, verdigris ; from the colour. 
Woods near Ludlow ! 
