HELOTIUM. 169 
p. 356; Berk., “ Outl.,” p. 372; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 
2159. 
On dead oak leaves. 
Name—Punctum, a point, forma, shape; from the 
shape. 
Edinburgh (Dr. Greville). 
32. Helotium phascoides. Fries. 
Of a waxy or watery consistence, minute, pallid, 
with a brick-red tinge; head turbinate, plane; stem 
short, sub-equal. 
Peziza phascoides—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 138; 
“Eng. Flo.” v. p. 204. Helotiwm phascoides—Fries, 
“Summa Veg. Scan.,” 355 ; Berk., “ Outl.,” p. 372; Cooke, 
“ Handbk.,” No. 2136. 
On small mosses. 
“Mr. Wilson’s specimens are subgregarious and 
perhaps a less red tinge, as far as may be judged from 
the dry plant, but there is no doubt that they are what 
Fries intends” (Berk. in “Eng. Flo.,” 1. ¢). 
I have not seen this; it is not in Mr. Berkeley’s 
herbarium. 
Name—Phascum, the genus of mosses on which it 
grows. 
33. Helotium ochracewm. (Grev.) 
Cup shortly stipitate or sessile, smooth, yellowish- 
brown, fleshy; disc paler, concave, plane, or convex, 
sprinkled with granular shining particles; asci cylin- 
draceo-clavate ; sporidia 8. 
Helotium ochraceum—Berk., “ Outl.,” p. 372; Cooke, 
“Handbk.,” No. 2148. Peziza ochracea—Grev., t. 5; 
“Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 204, 
On the bark of a fallen tree. Autumn. 
Plants minute, gregarious, of an ochery brown colour, 
globular and concave in the young state, and gradually 
becoming plane or even somewhat convex ; substance 
thick and fleshy, not shrinking much in drying ; margin 
depressed, rounded, entire, somewhat showing a tendency 
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