176 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
On cones of Pinus sylvestris. 
Cup $ to 4a line broad. This differs from P. cinerea 
(Batsch) in the browner shade, and always occurring on 
cones. 
Name—Fallaz, deceitful; from its resemblance to 
others. 
Generally distributed. 
(e) On herbaceous stems. 
7. Mollisia cyanites (nov. sp.). Cooke and Phil. 
Gregarious, minute, sessile, concave, then plane, 
black; margin fimbriate; hymenium bluish grey; asci 
clavate ; sporidia 8, cylindraceo-fusiform, elongated, 5 to 
7-guttulate, 25 X 3u; paraphyses filiform, slender. 
On herbaceous stems. 
Cup $ to } of a line broad. 
Name—xéavoe, dark blue. 
Scotland (?); Klotzsch in Kew Herbarium. ! 
8. Mollisia atro-cinerea. (Cooke.) 
Gregarious or scattered, sessile, slightly concave or 
plane; externally black, glabrous; hymenium cinereous; 
asci clavate; sporidia 8, fusiform or cylindrical, straight 
or curved, 5—7 x Iu; paraphyses not seen. 
Peziza atro-cinerea—Cooke in Exs. “ Fung. Brit.,” No. 
382. 
On herbaceous stems (?). 
Cups } to 1 of a line broad. 
Name—Ater, black, cinis, ashes; from the black 
exterior and the ashy disc. 
9. Mollisia Teucrit. (Fckl.) 
Gregarious, sessile, watery transparent, very pale 
yellowish-white, somewhat ochery-yellow, at first nearly 
closed, excavated, becoming plane, orbicular, marginate, 
outside the margin scarcely pubescent; hymenium same 
colour, when dry becoming yellow; asci cylindrical, 
globose-stipitate ; sporidia 8, cylindrical or fusiform, 
8 X lu; paraphyses filiform, 
