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2. Calloria chrysostigma. (Fries.) 
Gregarious, sessile, with a broad stem-like base, 
bright yellow, sometimes white, soft, submembranaceous, 
globose, then plano-concave, at first slightly pubescent. 
then glabrous; asci clavate or cylindraceo-clavate ; spo- 
ridia 8, fusiform, straight, 12 x 2u; paraphyses filiform. 
Peziza chrysostigma—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 128. 
Helotium chrysostigma—Karst., “Myco. Fenn.,” p. 148; 
Gill, “Champ.,” p. 155. 
On dead fronds of Pteris aquilina, Athyrium, ete. 
A very minute and variable species, now yellow, now 
white; at first pubescent, then glabrous. 
Name—ypvode, gold, orfyua, @ point. 
King’s Lynn! (Mr. ©. B. Plowright). 
(b) Sporidia cylindrical. 
3. Calloria steretcola. (Cooke.) 
Gregarious, minute, sessile or substipitate, globose, 
then cup-shaped, between fleshy and waxy; externally 
woolly, of a delicate rosy-pink when dry; hymenium 
the same colour; asci subclavate ; sporidia 8, cylindrical, 
obtuse, 7 x 1:54; paraphyses slenderly filiform. 
Peziza stereicola—Cooke in “ Grevillea,” i. p. 180. 
Exs.—Phil, “ Elv. Brit.,” No. 186. 
On the hymenium of Stereum. 
Cups 300 to 700u broad. The delicate pubescence is 
seen best in recently collected specimens; some of the 
cups are furnished with a decided stem; when moist the 
flesh is soft. 
Name—Sterewm, a genus of fungi, colo, to inhabit. 
Scotland (Herb. Edin.). Sutton Park, Birmingham 
(Mr. W. B. Grove). Colwyn, North Wales! 
B. EXTERIOR OF CUPS NAKED. 
(a) Sporidia subglobose. 
4. Calloria coccinella. (Sommf.) 
Scattered or gregarious, sessile, minute, subtremel- 
lose when moist, collapsing when dry, flesh-red; asci 
