322 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
The horny texture of this plant justifies its removal 
from the Pezize. ; 
Duddington Loch, near Edinburgh (Dr. Greville). 
Park Loch, near Aberdeen ! (Professor J. W. H. Trail). 
Gevus IV.—Ompropuiza. Fries, “Summa Veg. Scan.,” 
p. 357. 
Sessile or stipitate, glabrous, gelatinous; hymenium 
plane or convex, rarely concave ; generally dark-coloured ; 
epiphytal. (Plate X. fig. 62.) 
Spermogonia occur in some species, 
Name—6pPpoe, rain, pfAog, loving. 
ARRANGEMENT OF THE SPECIES. 
4. Sporidia elliptic + species 1, 2 
B. Sporidia fusiform or subfusiform. . ae ~~ Bo 
o. Sporidia cylindrical as o oe » 6 
: Key To THe Sprcigs. 
Exterior fibrillose-striate ats oe se o. rudis. 
Exterior veined, flesh-red_ .. a ee ow I 
Exterior even .. ee ey oe aa oo 2 
1 (rae uniguttulate.. a zis Se o. sarcoides. 
*\Sporidia multiguttulate and larger . . purpurea. 
Yellowish-brown ; paraphyses enlarged at the 
2 summits a ae re Be = ..  brunnea. 
* ) Mruginous-green ; paraphyses filiform, branched... atro-virens. 
Pallid or purplish ; paraphyses unbranched .» clavus. 
A. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC. 
1. Ombrophila rudis. (Berk.) 
Fasciculate, turbinate-stipitate or stipitate, sub- 
gelatinous; hymenium plane, here and there depressed, 
rugose, yellow-brown, somewhat vinous, externally finely 
fibrilloso-striate ; stem often elongated, lacunose or striate; 
asci clavate, base slender; sporidia 8, elliptic, 7—10 x 3— 
4u; paraphyses filiform, slender. 
Peziza rudis—Berk. in “Proce. N. H. Soc. Berw.,” 
p. 190; “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” No. 574, t. 6, £ 18; Cooke, 
“ Handbk.,” No. 2077. 
