186 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
-Exs.—Desm., “ Crypt. Fr,,” ed. i. 1066, and ed. ii, 466; 
- Karst., “Fung. Fenn.,” 831 (?); Rehm, “Asco.,” 253; 
Thum., “ Mycoth. Univ.,” 216; Rabh., “ Fung. Eur.,” 1623. 
On dead Triticum sylvaticwm, ete. 
A minute species; when dry concealed under the 
epidermis, issuing when moist through a narrow slit, 
assuming an elliptic or circular form. The sporidia in 
Karsten’s species differ in outline from those in my plant, 
and may be different. 
Name—Gramen, grass; growing on grass. 
Shrewsbury ! 
23. Mollisia arenevaga. (Desm.) 
Erumpent, minute, scattered, soft waxy, glabrous, 
when young globose, then plane; externally tawny, with 
a somewhat tumid tawny elevated margin, which is black 
when dry; hymenium watery whitish, becoming brown 
when dry ; asci clavate, subcylindrical ; sporidia 8, oblong- 
elliptic, hyaline, obtuse at the ends, 15 x 54; paraphyses 
filiform. 
Peziza arenevaga—Desm., “Ann. Se. Nat.,” 1852; 
“Grevillea,” iv. p. 122. Helotiwm arenevaga—Gill., 
“Champ.,” p. 160. 
Exs.—Desm., “Crypt. Fr.,” ii. 517; Phil. “ Elv. Brit.,” 
No. 84. 
On dead culms and leaves of Psamma arenaria. 
Name—Arena, sand, vagus, wandering ;° in sandy 
places. 
Towyn, North Wales! Scotland! (F. Currey, Esq.). 
24, Mollisia paulula. (Rob.) 
Erumpent, very minute, scattered or gregarious, sessile, 
soft waxy, glabrous, subglobose, externally between 
umber-brown and olivaceous; internally pallid-white ; 
mouth connivent, white, entire; asci broadly clavate ; 
sporidia 8, elliptic, 2-guttulate, 12 x 44; paraphyses fili- 
form, stout. 
Peziza paulula—Rob. in Desm., “Crypt. Fr.,” ed. i. 
No. 2010; “Ann. Se. Nat.,” 1851, p. 324, B. and Br.; 
