170 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
to become lobed; barren or inferior surface smooth, 
rather rugose or puckered towards the root; hymenium 
or upper surface appearing as if sprinkled with minute 
shining particles, not unlike small grains of brown sugar ; 
tubular cells containing the sporules, filiform, mixed 
with barren filaments ; sporules 5 to 8 (Grev., l. ¢.). 
Name—Ochraceus, colour of yellow ochre. 
Braid Hermitage, near Edinburgh (Dr. Greville) 
Shrewsbury (Rev. W. A. Leighton). 
32. Helotium agaricinuin. Berk. 
Firm, dark green, convex, rather uneven; margin 
revolute; stem rather thick, obconic; asci long, flexuous, 
obtuse. 
Peziza agaricina—Carm., MSS., “ Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 
207; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” 2127. 
On decayed wood. 
Plant 14 to 2 lines broad, very much resembling at 
first sight Helotiwm virens (Pers. in litt.), but on closer 
inspection quite different (“ Eng. Flo.”). 
33. Helotiwm buccina. Fries. 
Rather large, infundibuliform, dull yellow; stem 
thickened, striate, somewhat incurved. 
Peziza buccina—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 129; “Eng. 
Flo.,” v. p. 202. Helotium buccina—Fries, “Summa 
Veg. Scan.,” 355;, Berk. “Outl,” p. 872; Cooke, 
“ Handbk,,” 2141. 
On wood and pine branches. Rare. 
Carmichael’s original specimen (129, Kew. Herb.) is 
+ of an inch broad, $ high, and decidedly gelatinoso- 
cartilaginous. It is, to me,a Guepinia, there being no 
asci present. Carmichael considered it a V'remella. 
34. Helotiwm sclerotioides. Berk. 
Convex, umbilicate, clear red-brown, concave ben 
) x ? ’ eath, 
and confluent with the short obconic stem ; asci slender; 
sporidia (?). 
Peziza sclerotioides—Berk. in “Eng. Fung.,” v. p. 
