MOLLISIA. 1ly7 
E. SPORIDIA LINEAR, 
46. Mollisia lwrida. (Pers.) 
Crowded or scattered, turbinate, then expanded, 
rufous-brown, whitish towards the margin, fibroso-striate ; 
hymenium concave, pale rufous; margin erect; asci 
clavate; sporidia 8, narrowly linear, curved, multi- 
guttulate, 20—25 x 14; paraphyses filiform, slender, 
Peziza lurida—Pers., “Syn. Fung.,” p. 666. 
On dead leaves of Pinus sylvestris. 
Our plant agrees perfectly with a specimen in herb. 
Fries, and is abundantly distinct from Peziza pinets 
(Batsch). 
Name—Luridus, lurid; a dirty brown colour. 
Mossburnford ! (Mr. Jerdon in Kew Herbarium). 
SuspcEenus V.—HYSTEROPEZIZA. Rabh. 
Cups scattered, immersed; when moist erumpent, 
compressed, blackish. 
Name—From Hystertwm and Peziza, two genera of 
fungi. 
One British species. 
47. Mollisia erumpens. (Grev.) 
Scattered, minute, concave, waxy, soft, glabrous, 
erumpent, sessile, cinereous, when dry concealed beneath 
the bark; asci clavate, slender; sporidia 8, cylindrical, 
rounded at the ends, sometimes slightly bent, 7 x 15y; 
paraphyses filiform. 
Peziza erumpens—Grev., “Crypt. Flo.,” t. 99; “Eng. 
Flo.,” v. p. 206; Berk., “ Outl.,” p. 871; Gonn. and Rabh., 
iii. t. 5, f. 6; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2111. Mollisia 
erwmpens—Gill., “Champ.,” p. 128. 
Exs.—Desm., “Crypt. Fr.,” ed. ii. No. 1345; Cooke, 
“Fung. Brit.” 566, ed.-ii. 384; Phil, “Elv. Brit.,” 35; 
Rabh., “ Fung. Eur.,” 1811; Rehm, “ Asco.,” 354. 
On dead petioles of syeamore. Autumn. 
Resembling to the naked eye an Hystervwm when 
