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cave when young, with totally different spores. Cup 
*024 inch diameter, growing on Spheria hirsuta, and its 
mycelium, accompanied by a brown mould, consisting of 
erect, simple, articulated threads, surmounted by a single 
oblong uniseptate spore, 0005 inch (12) long; asci 
002 inch (50); sporidia ‘0002 to 00025 inch (5 to 6) 
long, 0001 to 00015 inch (2'5 to 3'5u) wide; bright orange 
when treated with iodine (B. and Br.). 
Name—A qua, water ; watery. 
B. SPORIDIA OBLONG-ELLIPTIC. 
2. Mollisia epithallina. Phil. and Plow. 
Congregated, sessile, disciform, immarginate, pallid- 
white; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, oblong- 
elliptic, 8 X 2u; paraphyses slender, slightly thickened 
upwards. 
Peziza (Mollisia) epithallina—Phil. and Plow. in 
“ Grevillea,” vi. p. 24, 
On thallus of Peltigera canina. 
Namé—émi, upon, Saddoe, a branch or thallus of a 
lichen ; from its habitat. 
King’s Lynn ! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 
C. SPORIDIA FUSIFORM OR OBLONG-FUSIFORM, 
(d) On wood. 
3. Mollisia cinerea. (Batsch.) 
Cups gregarious or scattered, at first urceolate, at 
length applanate, cinereous or nearly livid; margin entire, 
whitish, not unfrequently repand or flexuose; hymenium 
when dry cinereous, yellowish, or becoming blackish ; 
asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong or subfusiform, 
straight or curved, 5—12 x 1—2u; paraphyses filiform, 
slender. 
Peziza cinerea—Batsch, p. 196, f. 187; Pers., “ Obs.,” 
ii. p. 80; “ Myco. Eur.,” i. p. 302; Wahl., “Flo. Suee.,” ii. 
