338 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Exs.—Karst., “ Fung. Fenn.,” No. 326, 554; Fckl., 
“FP, Bh.” No. 326; Rav., vi. No. 86; Cooke, “Fung. 
Brit.,” 453; Phil. “ Elv. Brit.,” 18. 
On Corylus avellana and Alnus incanus. 
Varying greatly in size from 1} lines to 4 an inch 
broad. Czespitose or solitary, erumpent, variously 
deformed by pressure, coated with a pale rusty meal; 
hymenium cinnamon. 
Name—Furfur, bran; branny. 
Glapthorn, Northamptonshire (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). 
King’s Lynn, Norfolk! (Mr. C. B. Plowright). 
3. Encelia Bloxani (nov. sp.). 
Gregarious, often cespitose, shortly stipitate, eyathi- 
form, coriaceous, blackish brown, minutely verrucose; 
hymenium lurid brown; margin slightly undulating ; 
flesh dark purple-brown ; asci clavate ; sporidia 8, elliptic, 
3—4 x 2u; paraphyses filiform, adherent. 
Fusiform, uniseptate, stylospores on slender filaments 
are abundantly intermixed with the asci and paraphyses, 
the summits rising a little above the surface of the 
hymenium. . 
Patellaria Blowami—Berk. in Bloxam’s herb. at 
Kew. 
On dead wood. 
Cups about 1 to 4 lines broad. When dry the plant 
is black ; the purple-brown colour of the interior is only 
visible in a microscopic section. The stylospores appear 
to arise from the subhymenial tissue, and are by no 
means an accidental addition, for they are present in all 
the cups I examined. They are similar bodies to those 
in Peziza diplocarpa, Currey, and cannot be explained 
as spores that have germinated. On the surface of the 
very young cups a few short hairs occur. The cells of 
the pseudo-parenchyma are about 7 to 5u across. 
Habitat not given. 
