370 BRITISH DISCOMYCETES. 
Name—Vermis, a worm, fero, to bear; from the shape 
of the sporidia. 
Dolgelly, North Wales ! 
Doubtful Species. 
23. Patellaria citrina (Cheval.). B. and Br. 
Cups plane; externally pallid; hymenium lemon- 
coloured ; asci clavate ; sporidia filiform. 
Patellaria citrina—B. and Br., “Ann. Nat. Hist.,” 
No. 588; Berk., “Outl.,” p. 373. Ascobolus citrinus 
—Cheval., “Flo. En. Par.,” i. t.31; Cooke, “Handbk.,” 
2165. 
On rose-twigs lying in a running stream. April. 
Our plant answers exactly in outward appearance to 
that of Chevallier, having a broad, flat, yellow hymenium, 
with a pale border. The asci are clavate, and contain 
long filiform sporidia. We suspect that these are what 
M. Chevallier calls asci, considering the included granules 
as sporidia, exactly as Madame Libert has done in Stictis 
Seslerice (B. and Br.). 
Penllergare, near Swansea (Mr. M. Moggridge). 
The aftinity of this species is somewhat doubtful, 
and there being but a single cup in Mr. Berkeley’s 
herbarium, it cannot be examined without the risk of 
destroying it. 
24. Patellaria melazantha. Fries. 
Sessile, waxy, dry, patellate ; externally approaching 
black ; margin very entire; hymenium yellowish. 
Pexza melazantha—Fries, “Sys. Myco.,” ii. p. 150. 
Patellaria melazantha—Fries, “Summa Veg. Scan.,” p. 
366. Peziza melanotheja—Fries in Cooke’s “ Handbk.,” 
No. 2123 (2). 
There is some confusion in Fries’s “Sys. Myco.” with 
regard to this name, the author having named two 
ditterent plants by it. Whether both have occurred in 
Britain is doubtful. 
