OMBROPHILA. 825 
stipitate; hymenium plane or convex; stem thick or 
slender; asci cylindraceo-clavate; sporidia 8, oblong- 
elliptic, obtuse at the ends or pointed, unequal-sided, 
polari-guttulate, 10—15 x 4—5yu; paraphyses filiform. 
(Plate X. fig. 62.) 
_ _ Peziza clavus—A. and 8., p. 306, t. 11, f. 5; Fries, 
“Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 187; B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 
No. 575; Pat., p. 129, f. 290(?). Helotiwm clavus—Gill., 
“ Champ.,” p. 153. 
On leaves, twigs etc, lying in swampy places. 
Autumn. ‘ 
A most variable species both in size and shape, the 
stem at one time absent, at another elongated to twice 
the diameter of the dise; sometimes very thick, at others 
slender. 
Name—Clavus, a stud or button. 
Trefriw, North Wales ! 
6. Ombrophila atro-virens. (Pers.) 
Solitary or crowded, sessile or substipitate, at first 
globose, then turbinate or hemispherical, immarginate, 
subgelatinous, zeruginous-green ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; 
sporidia 8, cylindrical, obtuse at the ends, curved, 3 to 
4-septate, often constricted at the septa, 14—18 x 3—4u; 
paraphyses. filiform,. branched, adherent. 
Spermogonia solitary or ceespitose, often coalescing 
into a common truncate head; bearing narrowly ovoide 
spermatia, on slender, branched sterigmata. 
Peziza atro-virens—Pers., “Syn. Fung.,” p. 635; 
Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 141; “Eng. Flo.,” v. p. 205; 
Grev., “ Flo. Edin.,” p. 425; Cooke, “ Handbk.,” No, 2099. 
Coryne virescens—Tul., “ Select. Fung. Carp.,” iii. p. 193, 
t. xviii. f. 12-15. Calloria atro-virens—Fries, “Summa 
Veg. Scan.,” p. 359; Pat. p. 75, £174. Chlorosplenvum 
atro-virens—De Not., “ Dise.,” p. 23. 
Conidial form: Dacrymyces virescens—Fries, “ Sys. 
Myco.,” ii. p. 229. Mollisia atro-virens—Gill, “ Champ.,” 
. 126. 
e Exs.—Phil., “ Elv. Brit.,” 141 ; Rhem, “ Asco.,” 618. 
