190 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
nate, whitish or afterwards greyish brown; hymenium 
pallid-grey; margin sinuose, entire; asci eylindraceo- 
clavate, narrowed at the apex; sporidia 8, fusiform or 
elongated acicular, guttulate, straight, 6—10 x 1—2y; 
paraphyses filiform, slender. 
Peziza palustris—Rob. in Desm., “ Crypt. Fr.” ; Desm., 
“ Ann. Sc. Nat.,” 1847, p. 187; Karst., “Mon. Pez.,” p. 163. 
Mollisia palustris—Karst., “Myco. Fenn.,” p. 195; Gill., 
“Champ.” p. 120. 
Exs.—Desm., “ Crypt. Fr.,” ed. i. No. 1543. 
On dead culms and leaves of Juncus. Autumn. 
Allied to Peziza graminis and P. cinerea. 
Name—Palus, a marsh; growing in a marsh. 
Near Shrewsbury ! 
32. Mollisia Digitalina. Phil. 
Scattered or crowded, globose, at length expanded, 
externally black, squamulose, margin paler; hymenium 
cinereous; asci clavate, somewhat pointed; sporidia 8, 
cylindrical, straight or bent, 5—7 13; paraphyses 
filiform. 
Peziza atrata, var. Digitalina—Phil. “Elv. Brit.,” 
No. 128. 
On Digitalis purpurea. 
Cup 300—800y across. 
Name—Digitalis, the foxglove; from its habitat. 
Shrewsbury ! 
Suscenvus III.—Dinoretua. Phil. 
Sessile, hemispherical, becoming concave or plane, 
soft, glabrous, pallid, white, or roseate; sporidia sub- 
globose, oblong, or fusiform. Type, P. dilutella. (Plate 
VI. fig. 34.) 
Name—Dilutus, washed out; pale-coloured. 
ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 
A. Sporidia elliptic .. : +. species 33 
B. Sporidia linear or subfusiform a ae » 984-37 
