180 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
form; sporidia 8, fusiform, 8 x 2u; paraphyses filiform, 
slender. nus 
Peziza elaphines—B, and Br., “ Ann. Nat. Hist, No. 
1325, t. xix. f. 18; Grevillea, ii p. 180. Mollisia 
elaphines—Gill, “Champ.,” p. 131. 
Exs.—Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.” No. 659; Rabh., “ Fung. 
Eur.,” 1813. 
On dead wood. January. : 
Cup 300u broad. “Granules often disposed in lines 
so that the cups are radiated ” (B. and Br.). 
Name— édadivne, a fawn; fawn-coloured. 
St. Catherine’s ; Copthorn, near Shrewsbury ! 
14, Mollisia lignicola (nov. sp.). 
Gregarious or scattered, sessile, at first globose, at 
length somewhat expanded; externally scabrous and 
vertically rugose, brown or blackish-brown, when dry 
black ; margin subfimbriate from the slightly unequally 
elongated cells; hymenium pallid; asci evlindraceo- 
clavate ; sporidia 8, cylindrical or fusiform, obtuse, straight 
or curved, 5—8 x 1:5—2u; paraphyses indistinct. 
Mollisia ignicola—Phillips in “Grevillea,” v. xv. 
p. 113. 
On old worked wood (on an old gate). 
Cup 4 to 4 a line broad; when dry collapsed, but 
not plane, even when moist; asci 35 x 4u; sporidia 
biseriate. The marginal cells have the form of short, 
septate, blunt hairs when highly magnified. 
Bagley Wood, Berkshire, 1821! (Mr. Baxter in Kew 
Herb.). 
15. Mollisia Grevillei. (Berk.) 
Cups scattered or gregarious, sessile or subsessile, at 
first globose, then hemispherical, pale umber, farinoso- 
tomentose ; margin paler and fimbriate; hymenium the 
same colour ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong- 
fusiform, straight or curved, 3-guttulate, 6—8 x Qu; 
paraphyses filiform, slender. 
Peziza Grevillei—Berk., « Eng. Flo,” v. p 198; 
