192 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
prominent, whitish; sporidia 8, fusiform, straight or 
curved, 8—10 x 1—l-5u. (Plate VI. fig. 34.) 
Peziza dilutella—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii, p. 147. 
Helotiwm xeroplasticwm—Rehnm, “Asco.,” No. 565. Mol- 
lisia dilutella—Gill, “Champ.,” p. 181. 
Exs.—Rehnm, “ Asco.,” No. 565. 
On dead stems of Epilobiwm hirsutum. 
Cup about } to 4 a line broad. 
Name—Dilutus, washed ; pale-coloured. 
Haughmond Hill, near Shrewsbury ! 
Var. Smyrnii. Phil. and Plow. 
Gregarious, sessile, hemispherical, then expanded, 
fleshy, glabrous, pale argillaceous; margin minutely 
fimbriate ; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, fusiform 
or cylindraceo-fusiform, 3-guttulate, 10—13 x 3u; para- 
physes filiform. 
On dead stems of Smyrniwm. 
Differing very little from P. dilutella. 
Name—Smyrnium, a genus of Umbellifere. 
King’s Lynn! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 
86. Mollisia albula. Phil. 
Gregarious, minute, sessile, concave, becoming plane 
or convex, glabrous, shining, soft, fleshy, whitish; asci 
clavate; sporidia subcylindrical or fusiform, hyaline, 
6—10 x 24; paraphyses filiform, slender. 
On rabbit-dung. 
Cup about 300 to 400u broad, fleshy. The pseudo- 
parenchyma consists of elongated, cylindrical cells. 
Name—Albulus, somewhat white. 
Forres, N. B.! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 
37. Mollisia flaveola. (Cooke.) 
Sessile, minute, bright yellow, submembranaceous ; 
soft, soon becoming discoid, smooth, even; asci cylin- 
drical, sporidia subfusiform, straight or curved, 8 x 2u. 
aoe (Mollisia) flaveola—Cooke in “ Grevillea,” i. 
p. 181. 
