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21. Helotiwm ilicis (nov. sp.). 
Sessile, plane or concave, glabrous, waxy, vitelline ; 
margin paler, obtuse, repand; asci clavate, pointed at 
the summit; sporidia fusiform, biguttulate, at length 
pseudo-uniseptate, 6—9 x 2°54; paraphyses filiform. 
Helotiwm epiphyllum, var. ilicina—Phil, “ Elv. Brit., 
No. 134. 
On holly leaves. 
Cup } of a line broad. 
Name—lIlew, the holly ; from its habitat. 
Shrewsbury! Carlisle! (Dr. Carlyle). 
22. Helotiwm Marchantic. Berk. 
Cup shortly stipitate or sessile, rather thick, plane, 
marginate, flexuose, pale yellowish brown; stem very 
short or absent, obconical; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 
sporidia 8, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 12—15 x 3—5y; 
paraphyses filiform, rather stout. 
Helotiwm Marchantie—Berk., “ Outl.,” p. 372 ; Cooke, 
“Handbk.,” 2160; Fries, “Summa Veg. Scan.,” p. 356; 
Karst., “Myco. Fenn.,” p. 123. Peziza Marchantioe— 
Berk., “Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 204. 
On fading Marchantia hemispherica. May. 
Cup about $ to ? ofa line broad, “smooth, head quite 
confluent with the thick stem, so as to be irregularly 
and obtusely obconic; flesh white; hymenium thin” 
(Rev. M. J. Berkeley). i 
Name—Marchantia, a genus of Hepatice ; from its 
habitat. 
Whittlesea Mere (Rev. M. J. Berkeley), 
(d) Sporidia linear. 
(a) On wood. 
23. Helotiwm imberbe. (Bull.) 
Cup turbinate, becoming plano-concave, subflexuous, 
fleshy or waxy, smooth, white; stem short or nearly 
ees asci (?); sporidia 8, linear, slightly curved, 10u 
ong. 
