OMBROPHILA. 323 
On shallow gravel and peat. June. 
This plant is decidedly subgelatinous, and resembles 
some states of O. sarcoides, but has different sporidia. 
It is described when fresh as yellowish-brown, with 
vinous tint; stem often striate below, but externally very 
minutely fibroso-striate ” (B. and Br.). 
Name—Rudis, rude. 
Berwick ! (in Herb. Berk. Kew). 
2. Ombrophila brunnea. Phil. 
Crowded, sessile or substipitate, nearly hemispherical, 
then expanded, becoming flexuous, gelatinous, yellowish- 
brown, glabrous; hymenium darker than margin; asci 
cylindrical ; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, biguttulate, replete 
with granular protoplasm, 16—20x5—8u; paraphyses 
filiform, enlarged at the summits, adhering. : 
Ombrophila brunnea—Phil. in “Grevillea,” viii. 
p- 103; “Scott. Nat.,” i. (new ser.) 87. 
On dead herbaceous stems in damp places. 
Cups about 14 to 5 lines broad. 
Name—Brunneus, deep brown. 
Forres, N.B.! (Rev. Dr. Keith), 
B. SPORIDIA FUSIFORM OR SUBFUSIFORM. 
3. Ombrophila sarcoides. (Jacq.) 
Ceespitose, sessile or substipitate, firm, subgelatinous, 
fleshy red, veined below; hymenium plane, concave or 
urceolate and repand ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 
8, oblong or oblong-fusiform, straight or unequal-sided, 
with a central gutta, 10—18 x 4—5yu; paraphyses fili- 
form, slender, abundant, adherent. 
Spermogonia form, polymorphous, soft, viscid, flesh- 
red; conidia subglobose or subelliptic; spermatia rod- 
like, straight or curved. 
Lichen sarcoides—Jacq., “ Mise. Austr.,” ii. p. 378, t. 
22. Peziza sarcordes—Pers., “Syn. Fung.,” p. 683; A. and 
S., p. 805. Bulgaria sarcoides—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 
168; “Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 210; Berk., “ Outl.,” p. 375, t. 18, 
f. 6; Cooke, “Handbk.,” No. 2218; “Fungi,” p. 198; 
