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slender base; sporidia 8, filiform, very often attenuated 
at both ends, straight, colourless, simple or slenderly 
3-septate, 40—60 x 2:54; paraphyses crowded, apex 
slightly and unequally thickened. 
Peziza callunigena—Karst., ¢Mon. Pez.,” p. 171. 
Crumenula. callunigena—Karst., “Symb.” p. 251; 
“ Myco. Fenn,” p. 212. 
On branches of Calluna vulgaris. Autumn. 
Cups ‘6 mm. broad. I have found this abundantly on 
decaying branches of Calluna vulgaris, and the cups are 
invariably seated on a blackish-brown tapesium, re- 
minding one of Tapesia Rose (Pers.), to which it bears 
some resemblance. 
Name—Calluna, a genus of EHricacece, gigno, to bear. 
Near Clunbury, Salop ! 
3. Crumenula Eric. (Fries.) 
Solitary, sessile, coriaceo-membranaceous, brownish- 
black; externally rugose; mouth compressed, connivent ; 
asci cylindrical, narrowed at the base; sporidia 8, fili- 
form, 90 x 15; paraphyses filiform, slender. 
Pycnidia similar to the above; stylospores cylin- 
draceo-fusiform, curved, at length uniseptate, 16 x 2u. 
Cenangium Erice—Fries, “ Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 188. 
Exs.—Phil., “Elv. Brit,” No. 194. Neither Rehm’s 
“ Asco.,” No. 466, nor Rabh., “ Fung. Eur.,” 1445. 
On dead branches of Calluna vulgaris. 
Name—rica, a genus of heaths; from its habitat. 
Hadnall, Salop ! 
4. Crumenula Ledi, (A. and 8.) 
Scattered, superficial, sessile, at first closed, and nearly 
spherical, then depressed at the top, at length hemi- 
spherically collapsed, and opening with a broad mouth, 
rugulose, black; asci subeylindrical (sporidia not seen) ; 
paraphyses numerous, filiform. 
Peziza Ledi—A. and &., p. 343, t.10,f.7; Fries, “Sys, 
Myco.,” ii. p. 114; Nees, f. 264; B. and Br., “ Ann, Nat. 
