MOLLISIA, 195 
Name—Malus, the specific name of Pyrus malus, 
the crab. 
Near Shrewsbury ! 
D. .SPORIDIA OBLONG-FUSIFORM OR FUSIFORM, 
42, Mollisia versicolor. (Desm.) 
Very minute, sessile, white-hyaline, fragile, glabrous, 
at first globose, then turbinato-concave, slightly furfu- 
raceous externally ; margin subdenticulate; asci clavate 
sporidia 8, oblong-fusiform, biseriate, 1O—15 x 3u. 
Peziza versicolor—Desm., “ Ann. Se. Nat.,” 1853, vol. 
xx. p. 230; Steven., “Myco. Scot.,” p. 325; “Grevillea,” 
viii. p. 102. Phialea versicolor—Gill., “Champ.,” p. 106. 
On fronds of dead Pieris aquilina. June. ; 
Cups rarely exceed ‘5 mm. in width; their consist- 
ence is very soft; colour pure milk-white, but the least 
bruising, or the prick of a pin, causes them to turn 
yellow (Desm.). I have not observed this in British 
specimens. 
Name— Versicolor, changing colour. 
Forres, N. B.! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 
43. Mollisia pineti. (Batsch.) 
Gregarious or scattered, sessile, nearly plane; margin 
inflexed, obtuse, when dry contracted to a globose form, 
firm, growing greyish brown, when young whitish 
granulate or furfuraceous; hymenium pallid or greyish 
white ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-fusi- 
form or elongate-fusiform, 2-guttulate, 8—l'4 x 3u; 
paraphyses filiform, stout. 
Peziza pineti—Batsch, “EL,” p. 201, f 140; Fries, 
“Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 101; “Eng. Flo..” v. p. 197; Karst, 
“ Pez. et Ascob.,” p. 20; “ Mon. Pez.,” p. 189; Nyl., “Pez. 
Fenn.,” p. 52; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2050. Pseudo- 
helotium pineti—Fckl., “Symb. Myco.,” p. 298. Lachnea 
pineti— Gill, “ Champ.,” p. 83. Helotiwm pineti—Pat., 
p. 218, f. 498. 
Exs.—Fckl, “ F. Rh.,” 1167; Rehm, “ Asco.,” 561. 
