MOLLISIA. 185 
Extremely minute, punctiform, horn-brown; hyme- 
nium plane (B. and Br., l. ¢.). 
Cup not more than 100 broad. The sporidia refuse 
to quit the asci in the specimen examined, hence the 
measurement cannot be safely given. 
Name—jxpdc, small, yhrpa, the womb; from the 
minute interior. 
Twycross! (Rev. A. Bloxam). 
21. Mollisia viburnicola. B. and Br. 
Minute, punctiform, subglobose, then hemispherical, 
cinereous, externally granulated; margin denticulate, 
furfuraceous; hymenium paler; asci clavate; sporidia 8, 
filiform, 10—12 x Iu; paraphyses filiform. 
Peziza viburnicola—B. and Br. in “ Ann, Nat. Hist.,” 
No. 1170; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No. 2120. 
Exs.—Cooke, “ Fung. Brit.,” 656, ed. ii. No. 385; Phil, 
“Ely. Brit.” No. 85; Rabh., “Fung. Eur.,” 1818. 
On either side of dead leaves of Veburnum. 
Cup about 300 to 500u broad, “externally speckled 
with little dark tufts of cells, which sometimes give out 
a few short flexuous hairs” (B. and Br.). The sporidia 
are linear-oblong, straight, or a little bent. 
Name—Viburnwm, name of the shrub on which it 
grows, colo, to inhabit. 
Shere, Surrey ! (Dr. Capron). 
B. ERUMPENT. 
(a) Sporidia elliptic or oblong. 
22. Mollisia graminis. (Desm.) 
Gregarious or scattered, erumpent, hemispherical, 
rugulose, umber or cinereous-umber; hymenium pale 
umber or pallid-grey; margin fimbriate, villose-white ; 
asci clavate or cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, oblong- 
elliptic, 15 x 2°54; paraphyses filiform, stout. 
Peziza graminis—Desm., “Crypt. Fr,” ed. i. No. 1066 ; 
Karst., “Mon. Pez,” p. 160 (?). Mollisia graminis— 
Karst., “Myco. Fenn.,” p. 195; Gill, “Champ.,” p. 122. 
