HELOTIUM. 161 
Helotium pileatum—Karst., “Myco. Fenn.,” p. 130. 
On dead twigs, buried under the soil in very damp 
places. Autumn. 
Cups about 1 line broad, about the same in height; 
Scattered, glabrous, semitransparent, but firm. This has 
the largest sporidia of any British species I am acquainted 
with. 
Name—Pileatus, wearing a cap; from the capitate 
head. 
(8) On herbaceous stems. 
15. Helotium sublateritium. B. and Br. 
Pallid, brick-red ; stem short, cylindrical, delicately 
whitish villose, becoming ‘smooth; cups plane, veined 
beneath; margin elevated; asci linear; sporidia uni- 
seriate, shortly fusiform, biguttate, 25 x 5. 
Helotium sublateritium—B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. 
Hist.,” No. 1488 ; “Grevillea,” iii. p. 122. 
On stems of herbaceous plants. 
Name—Sub, somewhat, later, a brick; somewhat 
brick-red. 
Glamis, N.B. 
16. Helotiwm repandwm (nov. sp.). 
Cup shortly stipitate, plane, repand, thin, pale 
yellow, margin sublobate; stem very short, attenuated 
at the base; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, sub. 
cylindrical or oblong-elliptic, 7—10 x 2u; paraphyses 
filiform, slender. 
On Spirea ulmaria in damp places. 
Cup about 4 to 4 a line broad. 
Name—Repandus, bent backwards. 
Scotland ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 
(y) On leaves and fronds. 
17. Helotium sulphuratum. (Schum.) 
Cup stipitate or subsessile, at first orbicular, con- 
cave, then expanded, margin entire, between sulphur 
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