188 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
On dead stems of Lychnis dioica. Autumn. : 
Minute, scattered, generally seated on a cinereous 
stain on the stem. 
The Peziza spherioides (Roth., “Ust. Ann.,” i. p. 2, 
t. i £ 6) is Tympanis conspersa probably. Persoon cites 
this, and his is probably the same. The specimens 
published by Desmazieres are the earliest authority for 
the present species, which Fries thinks may be his 
Excipula levigata. Nees, fig. 281, cannot belong to this, 
but perhaps to Tympanis. The present species is a close 
ally of Peziza atrata (M. C. C. in litt.). 
Name—cdaipa, sphere, e7doc, a resemblance. 
King’s Lynn! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). Shrewsbury! 
27. Mollisia Typhe. (Cooke.) 
Gregarious or scattered, minute, erumpent, sessile, 
black, soft or waxy, soon plane, laterally compressed 
when dry; hymenium fuliginous, black when dry, 
minutely papillate, even; asci cylindrical; sporidia 8, 
fusiform, hyaline, simple, 12—14 x 2°5—3y. 
Peziza (Mollisia) Typhe—Cooke in “ Grevillea,” vol. i, 
p. 131. . 
Exs.—Cooke, “Fung. Brit.” ed. i, 570, ed. ii. 388; 
Phil., “Elv. Brit.,” 127. 
On leaves of Typha. 
Externally like P. atrata, but sporidia much longer. 
Name—Typha, the reed mace. 
King’s Lynn! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 
(c) Sporidia cylindrical or acicular. 
28. Mollisia artemisie. (Lasch.) 
Erumpent, thin, almost stipitate, at first turbinate, 
then flattened, somewhat rounded, naked, brownish 
black ; hymenium whitish ; margin incurved ; asci cylin- 
drical; sporidia 8, linear, minute, hyaline. 
Pezxiza artemisie—Lasch. in Rabh., “Herb. Myco.,” 
No. 335; “Grevillea,” i. p. 181. 
Exs.—Rabh., “ Herb. Myco.,” No. 335. “™ 
On dead stems of Artemisia vulgaris. ~ 
