148 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Genus V.—BELONIDIUM. Mont. and Dur., “Flo. Alger.” 
Cup sessile or shortly stipitate, cyathiform or in- 
fundibuliform, mouth compressed when dry; cells of the 
excipulum elongate; texture firm; somewhat waxy ; asci 
8-spored, paraphyses filiform; sporidia terete, obtuse or 
acute at the ends, septate, hyaline. (Plate V. fig. 29.) 
Name—fedorfe, a little needle; from the shape of the 
sporidia. 
ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 
A. Stipitate or substipitate. 
(a) Sporidia fusiform .. oe .- species 1,2 
B. Sessile. 
(a) Sporidia elliptic or oblong-elliptic » 38 
(6) Sporidia fusiform fs ai a4 » 4,5 
(c) Sporidia filiform  .. a a » 6,7 
Key To THE Species. 
Growing on wood 5 Sea : a sod 
Growing on herbaceous stems ne ee zs 2 
Hymenium pallid-white, substipitate sie +. minutissimum. 
: fa ae ca allid-ochraceous, sessile a »»  ventoswm. 
Hymenium dingy-black, externally brown. . -- lacustre. 
2. {Hymenium pallid or whitish a ve aa ae 
Hymenium pallid or testaccous = os ». eulmicolum. 
Externally brown; sporidia fusiform, 3-septate .. pullum. 
3.( Externally blackish ; sporidia multiseptate ..  excelsius. 
Externally horn-colour,; sporidia filiform .. .. filisporum, 
\ 
A. STIPITATE OR SUBSTIPITATE. 
(a) Sporidia fusiform. 
1. Belonidium culmicolum. (Desm.) 
Cup cyathiform or almost campanulate, pallid or 
rosy white; the mouth, when dry, contracted, plicate, 
nearly closed; hymenium pallid or testaceous, or rosy ; 
stem very short, stout, or absent; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 
sporidia 8, fusiform, straight or curved, 3-septate, 23— 
28 x 3—4y; paraphyses filiform, sometimes enlarged 
slightly at the apices. (Plate V. fig. 29.) 
Peziza culmicola—Desm., “Ann. Sc. Nat.,” 1886, p 
243. Belonidiwm vexatum—De Not., “ Dise.,” p. 26 
