MOLLISTA. 191 
Key To Tap SPEcIEs. 
Hymenium roseate : on pine leaves .. oe ». tnearnata. 
Hymenium cinereous-white: on Epilobium and 
Smyrnium .. a ats a v5 .. dilutella. 
Hymenium whitish : on rabbit’s dung o. »»  albula. 
Hymenium white: on Lastrea oe oe -» — filicum. 
Hymenium bright yellow: on Pteris oe «+ flaveola. 
A. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC, 
33. Mollisia filicum. Phil. 
Gregarious, minute, at first globose, then cupulate, at 
length expanded, white, glabrous; asci clavate-cylin- 
drical; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, straight or curved, 2 
to 3-guttulate, becoming 1 to 2-pseudo-septate, 8— 
12 x 34; paraphyses extremely slender. 
Peziza (Mollisia) filiewm—Phil. “ Grevillea,” xiii. p. 
74. 
On dead stems of Lastrea Filix-mas. 
Cup 100 to 300u broad. 
This differs from Peziza Aspidiicola (B. and Br.) in 
the perfectly glabrous exterior of the cup, and the much 
larger and guttulate sporidia. 
Name—/ilia, a fern. 
Shobden, Herefordshire ! 
B. SPORIDIA LINEAR OR SUBFUSIFORM. 
384, Mollisia incarnata. (Cooke.) 
Scattered, minute, roseate, sessile, cups soon ex- 
panded, nearly plane, externally paler; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia 8, linear, obtuse, hyaline, 10 x 1‘5u. 
Peziza (Mollisia) incarnata—Cooke, “ Grevillea,” i. 
p. 1381. 
On pine-leaves. 
Name—Cavro, carnis, flesh; flesh-coloured. 
Scotland (A. Jerdon). 
35. Mollisia dilutella. (Fries.) 
Gregarious, sessile, waxy soft, glabrous, at first hemi- 
spherical, then expanded, cinereous-white ; margin entire, 
