160 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
straight or slightly curved, 2 to 4-guttulate, or spuriously 
1 to 3-septate, 25—30 x 5—7u; paraphyses filiform, 
stout. 
Helotium salicellum—Fries, “Summa Veg. Scan.,” p. 
356; Berk., “Outl,” p. 372; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 
2151; Gill, “Champ.,” p. 157. Peziza salicella—Fries, 
“Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 183; B. and Br, “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 
No. 573*; Karst., “Pez. et Ascob.,” p. 84; “Mon. Pez.,” p. 
184; Nyl, “ Pez. Fenn.,” p. 45. 
Exs—Rabh., “Fung. Eur,” 1707; Cooke, “ Fung. 
Brit.,” 558, 
On branches of Salia. August to October. 
Cup 3 to 1 line broad. The measurement of sporidia 
is from Drs. Nylander and Karsten. 
Name—Salia, a willow; growing on a willow. 
Neatishead (Dr. M. C. Cooke). Nescliffe, Salop ! 
Shrewsbury ! 
13. Helotium mellewm. B. and Br. 
Pallid honey-colour; stem short, cylindrical; cups 
plane, flexuose ; margin elevated, inflexed ; asci elongated, 
lanceolate ; sporidia biseriate, fusiform, curved on one 
side, multiguttulate, 30u. 
Helotium mellewm—B. and Br., “ Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 
No. 1487; “Grevillea,” iii, p. 122. 
On rotten wood. 
“ About a line broad; stem half as much high, Allied 
to H. luteolum” (B. and Br.). 
Name—Melleus, like honey ; the colour of honey. 
New Pitsligo (Rev. J. Fergusson). 
14. Helotiwm pileatum. Karst. 
Cup stipitate, slightly concave, becoming convex; 
margin deflexed, frequently repando-lobate, whitish, 
livid, or pallid with a bluish tinge; stem short, thickened 
upwards; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong- 
elliptic or oblong-fusiform, becoming pseudo-uniseptate, 
ae x 5—7u; paraphyses filiform, stoutish, granular 
within. 
