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glabrous stem, rather short, tapering to the base; asci 
cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, elliptic, rarely sub- 
clavate, 20 x 4-_5u; paraphyses filiform, slender. 
Peziza flava—Klotzsch in Kew Herb.! 
On decorticated wood. 
Cup about } to 4 a line broad. 
Name—Flavus, yellow. 
7. Helotiwm lenticulare. (Bull.) 
Cup substipitate or sessile, fleshy, firm, convex, ad- 
pressed to the wood, luteus; stem papilleform, often 
nigrescent; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong, 
oblong-elliptic, or clavate, 10—15 x 3—45y. 
Helotium lenticulare—Berk., “ Outl.,” p. 372; “Eng. 
Flo.,” v. p. 203; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2147; Fekl, 
“Symb. Myco.,” p. 315; Gill, “Champ.,” p. 154. Peziza 
lenticularis—Bull, t. 300, f. a, c; “Flo. Dan.,” t. 1294, 
fl. P. aurea—Sow., t. 150. H. nigripes—Schum., 
“Saell.,” p. 412; Pers., “Myco. Eur.” p. 544, 
On dead wood. Autumn. 
About 1 line broad, nearly sessile, glabrous, bright 
yellow, convex. 
The sporidia were derived from Sowerby’s original 
specimen in Herb. Berk. 
Name—Lenticularis, form of a little lens. 
8. Helotiwm citrinum. (Hedw.) 
Cup shortly stipitate or sessile, plano-concave, lemon- 
yellow, waxy, firm, glabrous; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 
sporidia 8, fusiform or oblong-elliptic, 2 to 3-guttulate, 
often pseudo-uniseptate, 7—15 x 3u; paraphyses filiform. 
Octospora citrina—Hedw., “Mus. Frond.,” ii. p. 28. 
Helotiwm citrinum—Fries, “Summa Veg. Scan.,” p. 355 ; 
Berk., “ Outl.,” p. 372; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2145 ; 
Karst., “Myco. Fenn.,” p. 120. Peziza citrina—Batsch, 
fig. 208; Pers., “Syn. Fung.,” p. 663; Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” 
ii. p. 181; Karst., “Pez. et Ascob.,” p. 32; “Mon. Pez.,” 
p. 143; Nyl., “ Pez. Fenn.,” p. 43; Fekl., “Symb. Myco.,” 
p. 815. Phialea citrina—Gill, “Champ.,” p. 109. 
