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pallid bluish-yellow, margined by the excipulum, which 
is submembranaceous, and in section cup-shaped, bluish- 
black, adhering by the greater part of its base to the 
wood. The asci are very long and cylindrical, not as 
figured by M. Crouan, in “ Ann. Se. Nat.” (1. ¢). The 
paraphyses are septate, often branched, and clavate at 
the summits. The sporidia are 270 x 2u, and when 
mature septate. 
Name—After Vicomte de Guernisac. 
Wrexham, Denbighshire ! (Mr. B. Acton). Habberley 
and Berrington! near Shrewsbury. 
6. Vibrissea turbinata. Phil. 
Scattered, turbinate; hymenium plane or convex, 
ochraceous yellow, margined by the thin edge of the 
receptacle, which is bluish-grey, smooth ; asci cylindrical ; 
sporidia 8, filiform, 180 x 2u; paraphyses slender, branched 
near the summits, which are slightly enlarged and 
brownish. 
Vibrissea turbinata—Phil. in “Trans. Linn. Soe,” 
ser. 2, vol. ii. p. 8, t. ii. £. 14-18. Helotium vibrissioides 
—Pk. in litt. 
On branches of ash in watercourse. 
Cup 4 to 3 a line broad. 
Name—Turbinatus—shaped like a top. 
Shrewsbury ! 
7. Vibrissea leptospora. (B. and Br.) 
Hemispherical, then expanded, sessile; hymenium 
pallid or straw-coloured ; externally lurid, from the scat- 
tered, black, adpressed flocci; margin crenulate; sporidia 
filiform ; 200 to 230u long, 2u broad. 
Peziza leptospora—B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 
No. 1166, t. iv. f. 30. Vibrissea coronata—Phil. in Herb. 
Vobrissea leptospora—Phil. in “ Trans. Linn. Soce.,” ser. 2, 
vol. ii. p. 8, t. 2, f. 19-28. 
On decayed wood. 
About 4 a line across; at first perfectly globose, often 
collapsed in the centre, but gradually opening and ex- 
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