152 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
cinereous brown to chocolate-brown, and the dise pale 
watery cinereous or brownish; the margin is usually 
erect ; the sporidia in some of the specimens are narrowly 
fusiform, in others broader and more obtuse. 
It is very near Belonidiwm lacustre (Fries) and B. 
Scirpi (Rabh.), but is distinguished from both by the 
sporidia. 
Name—Pullus, blackish. 
Forres, N.B.! (Rev. Dr. Keith). Near Bristol! (Mr. 
C. Bucknall). Near Shrewsbury ! 
7. Belonidium filisporum. (Cooke.) 
Cups scattered or subgregarious, soft, hemispherical, 
then flattened; externally horn-colour or tawny, brown 
when dry, connivent; hymenium pallid, dirty white, 
slightly concave ; asci cylindrical, clavate ; sporidia fili- 
form, straight or curved, triseptate, 35 x 34; paraphyses 
filiform, simple. 
Peziza (Mollisea) filispora-—Cooke in “ Grevillea,” iii. 
. 66. 
- On sheaths of grass. 
Allied to Peziza excelsior, Karst. (Cooke). 
Name—Filum, a thread, owdpoc, seed; from the 
slender sporidia. 
Genus VI—HEtotium. Fries (in part). 
Disc always open, at first punctiform, then dilated, 
plane or convex, waxy, naked, sessile, or with a short 
stout stem; asci cylindrical or subclavate; sporidia 8, 
elliptic, fusiform, clavate, oblong, or cylindrical. (Plate V. 
figs. 30, 31.) 
Name—jAog, a nail. 
Distinguished from Hymenoscypha by the shorter 
and thicker or absent stem, and the dise being open from 
the first; from Belonidiwm by the simple or at most 
2-septate sporidia; and from Chlorospleniwm by the 
colour. 
Mostly yellow or brown, rarely white; epiphytal. 
